Phil Mercer

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6,555 appearances 112 recordings 5 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 11 Sep

Phil Mercer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 110 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 38.

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Bloomberg Tech · AI Spending Ripples Across Tech Stack; Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

Do you and Clem stay with Hugging Face and and and then the specifics of how you're gonna structure this? voice-verified

What is it that that Hugging Face is going to be able to do now, Thomas? voice-verified

Like either scaling or or or or in in the speed of movement that you you just wouldn't have otherwise been able to do independently? voice-verified

So so it sounds like, you know, Hugging Face looked at the a strategy for the future and approached NVIDIA or or Jensen and NVIDIA approached Hugging Face? voice-verified

What was interesting, as outlined by Jensen in his various communications, like for example, a blog post on LinkedIn, is that the hugging face community will still have the same choices, right? voice-verified

Including the cloud platform backing the inference platform. voice-verified

In other words, there is no mandatory requirement to use NVIDIA compute. voice-verified

Um was that something that that you guys on your side in in voice-verified

insisted on or or what you know, what's the backstory to that? voice-verified

This is a slight tangent or an aside, but you know, last week you were on the show with me and we were talking about your robotics business. voice-verified

How does the robotics business transfer with NVIDIA? voice-verified

Because you had massive demand for microduct quite quickly. voice-verified

Nvidia's got massive scale. voice-verified

They are a hardware company as well. voice-verified

You know, explain the opportunity there. voice-verified

Thomas, um this this is a deal, right? voice-verified

Thirteen billion dollars, one billion dollars of which is is tied to em employee retention through stock. voice-verified

How did this discussion go around regulation, antitrust? voice-verified

You know, how do you think that your competitors, Nvidia's competitors will view this deal and and what level of confidence or concern is there on on this passing through the the regulatory process with ease? voice-verified

Right now. voice-verified

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