Nvidia, Jensen Huang and AI
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The Nvidia CEO gave his continued bullish assessment of artificial intelligence, calling it an “incredible technology” and saying it should be seen as infrastructure, just like electricity.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang expected to visit the EU next week, first stop is Germany with a rumored announcement of a new AI factory to be built.
Nvidia designed a new architecture called Blackwell to power those inference workloads, and it produces up to 40 times more performance than the Hopper architecture. But it might not be enough, because Huang says some reasoning models consume a staggering 1,000 times more tokens (words, punctuation, and symbols) than the old one-shot LLMs.
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei says the company's chips still lag a generation behind U.S. rivals, even as it invests heavily to close the gap.
The H20 was introduced by Nvidia after the Biden administration restricted AI chip exports in 2022. It's a slowed-down version intended to comply with U.S. export controls.
British Prime Minister announces major investment in computing power as Nvidia launches AI tech hub and warns of infrastructure gap.
Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, defies typical leadership norms, driven by a profound fear of failure rather than mere optimism. According to his biographer Stephen Witt, this anxiety fuels his relentless work ethic and innovation,