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Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

Yeah, exactly.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

And they can contribute, well, this doesn't work for the power distribution.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

This doesn't work for the memory.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

This doesn't work for this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

So as you mentioned, NVIDIA is this company that's adapting to the environment.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

So which point can you say...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

Did the environment change and you began adapting sort of secretly in the early days from GPU for gaming, maybe the early deep learning revolution to we're now going to start thinking of it as an AI factory.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

What does NVIDIA do?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

It produces AI, let's build a factory that makes AI.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

So putting CUDA on GeForce could not afford to do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

Can you explain that decision?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

Why boldly choose to do that anyway?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

For people who don't know, it turned out to be, spoiler alert, one of the most incredibly brilliant decisions ever made by a company.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

So CUDA turned out to be

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

an incredible foundation for computation in this AI infrastructure world.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

Thank you.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

You're just setting the context.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

It turned out to be a good decision.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

And then that became the platform, the foundation for the deep learning revolution.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#494 โ€“ Jensen Huang: NVIDIA โ€“ The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

That existential moment, do you remember, what were those meetings like?