20VC: NVIDIA Crushes Quarter and Buys Hugging Face | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5BN Valuation and The Race for AI Assistants | Cognition Raises at $46BN, Linear $2.5BN and Clay $7BN
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Why did NVIDIA’s $96 billion quarter and potential $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal matter for AI investors?
This intense demand for compute is going to continue for at least another twelve months. If
NVIDIA is crushing it, everyone's gonna crush it.
That sound you hear is the Google free cash flow and the Oracle free cash flow just disappearing down the drain, man. Now would be a good time to panic about cyber.
Literally, the amount of code we're building is a hundred X. We didn't realize we would all be building compound companies. Again.
Our job is to sniff out winners, stuff capital into them, and broadly speaking, stay out of the way unless they're literally crashing the car. That's the job in a nutshell.
This is 20 VC with me, Harry Sabbings. Now, this is the must-listen show every single week. All the biggest pieces of news broken down for you by some of the best ambassadors in the world. That is obviously Rio Driscoll and Jason Lampkin. Now, what are we discussing today? NVIDIA. They deliver record $96 billion quarter. Jensen hits it out of the park, baby. And NVIDIA nears $12.9 billion deal for Hugging Face, the greatest pick. Pivot of all time. We then move to Sam Altman, or as the wonderful Elon Musk calls him Scam Altman, as they cut off Cursor, and then Mike Shaw's brilliant response: well, it is only 5% of traffic. And then finally we finish on the talk of the town, Instinct, the latest and greatest from Silicon Valley, the AI assistant that has raised at a $2.5 billion valuation and has everyone very excited.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did NVIDIA’s $96 billion quarter and potential $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal matter for AI investors?
0:00–13:06
2
What does the OpenAI‑Cursor shutdown reveal about the Altman‑Musk feud and AI product strategy?
13:06–24:21
3
How did the 1,000‑agent cyber‑attack expose security risks for AI‑driven companies?
24:21–35:12
4
Why is Instinct’s $2.5 billion valuation a signal for the future of AI assistants?
35:12–46:40
5
What does Cognition’s $46 billion raise and $1.6 billion ARR target tell us about the coding‑agent market?
46:40–57:40
6
How are AI forces reshaping every startup into a “compound company” and why does it matter?
57:40–1:08:58
7
What’s the impact of Salesforce’s Claude partnership and outcome‑based pricing on the AI ecosystem?
1:08:58–1:14:30
8
Why did the Stripe‑PayPal deal collapse and what does the $7 billion Clay raise mean for AI‑enabled fintech?
1:14:30–1:17:39
Speakers
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