Lex Fridman

What does NVIDIA do?

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

So putting CUDA on GeForce could not afford to do.

Can you explain that decision?

Why boldly choose to do that anyway?

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.

So CUDA turned out to be

an incredible foundation for computation in this AI infrastructure world.

Thank you.

You're just setting the context.

It turned out to be a good decision.

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

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

What were those discussions like, deciding as a company, risking everything?

But that's more of a conversation with the board convincing them, but you psychologically.

Because NVIDIA has continued to make bold bets that predict the future and in part, especially now, define the future.

So I'm almost looking for wisdom about how you're able to make those decisions, to make leaps like that as a company.

So you envision the future.

Yeah.

And you essentially, from a sort of engineering perspective, manifest it.