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This Week in AI: NVIDIA's $2B Elon Deal | OpenAI's Huge User Base · In the Loop AI

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Ejaaz: Welcome back to the Limitless AI Roundup. This week, NVIDIA is well on its way
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Ejaaz: to becoming a $10 trillion company.
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Ejaaz: Jensen Huang announced a $2 billion investment in XAI, putting a massive smile on Elon Musk's face.
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Ejaaz: But Sam Altman's been pretty busy as well. He announced 800 million total weekly
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Ejaaz: users on ChatGPT, which is a 300 million jump from last update,
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Ejaaz: which is absolutely insane.
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Ejaaz: And Apple might be scrapping their Vision Pro after all this effort, Josh.
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Ejaaz: Lots to cover this week and lots to get into, starting with this breaking news from AMD.
0:41
Ejaaz: AMD, for those of you who haven't heard of it, is pretty much NVIDIA's main competitor.
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Ejaaz: They create a bunch of important chips, GPUs, and infrastructure needed to train
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Ejaaz: and inference new AI models.
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Ejaaz: And in this announcement, they secured a partnership with OpenAI of a total
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Ejaaz: of six gigawatts over multiple years.
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Ejaaz: I think this specific is five years in total. But the most important fact about
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Ejaaz: this, in my opinion, is the 10% equity stake that they're offering Sam Altman,
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Ejaaz: Josh. Did you hear about this?
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Ejaaz: They're basically offering up a stake for OpenAI in their own company.
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Josh: Yeah, this is a pretty outrageous deal. Before we get into the deal,
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Josh: can we just take a moment to look at the chart if you don't mind pulling that up?
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Josh: Because the weekly chart of AMD is outrageous. And I think it's very reflective
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Josh: of the size and scale of this deal. Yeah.
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Josh: So on the day the news broke, I think the stock was up almost 40%.
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Josh: It might have closed like around plus 30% or something outrageous,
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Josh: but the market loves this.
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Josh: And I think the reason why is because this is a big bet and a vertical integration of technology.
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Josh: Like open ai needs chips amd needs someone to sell their
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Josh: chips too because nvidia is like kind of crushing everyone and the
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Josh: deal you can kind of view it in two separate ways so amd first
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Josh: they sell open ai a mountain of chips open ai
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Josh: promises to buy a gigantic amount of amd special ai chips they're called the
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Josh: instinct gpus i think which is different from uh nvidia's blackwell um they'll
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Josh: start with enough chips to use one gigawatt of power in 2026 so that's like
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Josh: the electricity needed to light up a whole build a whole city like seattle like
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Josh: a gigawatt is huge no one's reached it before, but they're going to try to do that in 2026.
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Josh: Over time, it'll grow to six gigawatts of total energy, which is like this like
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Josh: crazy outrageous thing.
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Josh: So like imagine you build a robot army for like a school project,
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Josh: you need 100,000 Lego bricks.
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Josh: Instead of buying a few at a time, you make a deal with the Lego store to get
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Josh: millions over five years. That's kind of how you could think of this deal with them.
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Josh: And then on the back end of the deal, OpenAI gets a chance to own part of AMD.
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Josh: So as part of the deal, AMD gave OpenAI a warrant, which is kind of like a special
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Josh: ticket to buy up to 10% of AMD's company super cheap.
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Josh: Think like a penny per share. But OpenEye only gets this if they hit the goals,
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Josh: like actually buying and using all those chips without any problems.
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Josh: So like one example I was explaining to my friend is that if you're trading
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Josh: Pokemon cards, you give them, you give your friend like a bunch of rare cards now.
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Josh: And in return, they promise if your collection grows big enough,
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Josh: you get to own half of their card box for free. So it's kind of a win-win.
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Josh: You get what you need now in hopes of earning a lot of revenue down the line.
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Josh: And that's kind of how you could think of this deal is it's it's a bet on both
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Josh: of their futures but aligned to the same outcomes so all this only plays out in the case that
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Josh: OpenAI is able to make these data centers, and then AMD is actually able to
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Josh: give the GPUs required to make these data centers, which is a big win-win, and the market loved it.
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Josh: I mean, this chart is very reflective of how impressive people think this deal is.
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Josh: There's a lot of talk about this kind of circle of revenue happening,
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Josh: where OpenAI is paying AMD, AMD is lending stuff to OpenAI, but overall,
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Josh: the market seems to like it. Ejaz, did you have any takeaways from this?
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Ejaaz: Well, that's kind of what I want to get into. You can frame it as one way,
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Ejaaz: as a win-win, as you said, but it could also be framed as kind of like a house
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Ejaaz: of cards that might come crumbling down at any point.
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Ejaaz: As you said, OpenAI is promising to pay for these things, but they don't actually
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Ejaaz: have the trillions of dollars needed to pay for these GPUs just yet.
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Ejaaz: And in AMD's position, they don't have the chips or the infrastructure ready
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Ejaaz: to go either, right? So it's kind of like a, hey, I owe you and we'll promise to build this out.
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Ejaaz: And actually, the 10% equity stake that was offered to Sam Altman was to sweeten
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Ejaaz: the deal in any case, saying like, listen, I know that NVIDIA is the big dog,
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Ejaaz: but we can deliver on this.
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Ejaaz: And we're promising you in good faith that you can buy 10% of our company at
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Ejaaz: a given price if you just trust us and we deliver on it.
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Ejaaz: And there'll be milestones that rank this up, right? I want to dig into the
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Ejaaz: math very quickly because the margins are, as you can imagine, pretty nuts.
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Ejaaz: So the total number of units that are promised for 6 gigawatts is 5 million
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Ejaaz: units of AMD processors.
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Ejaaz: And the price per GPU is around 20 grand.
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Ejaaz: So total revenue for AMD in this would be around $100 billion.
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Ejaaz: That's a big number. And I know OpenAI doesn't have that money just yet, right?
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Ejaaz: And the gross profit that AMD is taking from this is 50%. That's $50 billion.
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Ejaaz: But then someone is saying, well, okay, but they're giving 10% of the company,
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Ejaaz: but then 10% of AMD's equity at Friday's close, which is, I think,
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Ejaaz: before this announcement was officially
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Ejaaz: made, or maybe on the day of this announcement, was $21 billion.
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Ejaaz: So you're assuming that if you can buy in at a $21 billion valuation,
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Ejaaz: by the time that these gigawatts are served to OpenAI, they'll probably be worth a marginal amount more.
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Ejaaz: So really, AMD spent $21 billion to make $50 billion in the immediate terms,
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Ejaaz: which is a pretty good deal.
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Ejaaz: One other thing that I thought of is
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Ejaaz: This is an unexpected move from OpenAI and Sam Altman specifically,
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Ejaaz: because he's been in really good cahoots with Jensen Huang and NVIDIA.
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Ejaaz: And Jensen's been kind of known to rule the roost, and you don't want to ruffle feathers with him.
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Ejaaz: And this is a direct violation of that. In fact, Josh, I don't know if you saw
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Ejaaz: this, but he had some supposed commentary, which is detailed in this tweet,
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Ejaaz: where he goes, I saw the deal. It's unique and surprising.
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Ejaaz: Considering they were so excited about their next generation product,
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Ejaaz: I'm surprised they would give away 10% of the company before they even built
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Ejaaz: it. Anyway, it's clever, I guess.
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Ejaaz: So I don't know directly where that quote is taken from, but you can just tell
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Ejaaz: that Jensen is kind of like sitting on top of his throne and he's watching what's
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Ejaaz: happening and he's making sure that the kids behave.
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Ejaaz: And one final point is, I saw a tweet going around, I couldn't find it,
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Ejaaz: which was apparently taken from a statement from OpenAI basically saying,
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Ejaaz: we're entering this partnership with AMD, but this by no means violates our
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Ejaaz: partnership with NVIDIA, who we trust and we love so much.
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Ejaaz: And we're looking forward to taking our partnership with NVIDIA further in the
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Ejaaz: future. He actually mentioned NVIDIA more than he mentioned AMD,
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Ejaaz: which is what the announcement was about.
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Ejaaz: So there's this cautious treading around, okay, whose GPUs are we going to take,
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Ejaaz: which is a strategy which Sam has been employing not just in the GPU world,
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Ejaaz: but with compute in general.
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Ejaaz: Remember, he had an over-reliance on Microsoft less than a year ago,
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Ejaaz: and now he's kind of like spread that to Oracle and a number of other providers.
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Ejaaz: So just an interesting trend to note.
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Josh: Yeah, I love this quote from Jensen that we have on the screen.
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Josh: He's just so hyper-competitive. And then I listened to a lot of the things that he said.
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Josh: Uh, he just had a conversation on CNBC earlier this morning, I think.
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Josh: And it was about the Nvidia deal and about the, the nature of the deals.
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Josh: And he publicly makes it seem very positive.
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Josh: Some, when he talks about these companies, he is, everybody's great.
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Josh: He always makes time to give credit to all of the amazing companies, all the amazing CEOs.
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Josh: The reality is, is like, he has a very hardcore operator. He is hyper competitive.
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Josh: And when he sees, sees deals like this, I mean, he, he's right in the sense
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Josh: that, well, AMD gave away 10% of the company, like Nvidia ships are badass.
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Josh: We don't have to give away anything. And I think that kind of leads us into the next deal.
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Josh: And I mean, Ejaz, you started the show with a $10 trillion valuation for Nvidia.
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Josh: So please back us into how we get there. Like they had one big deal this week, right?
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Josh: Which probably plays a large role in that valuation between XAI. Please explain.
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Ejaaz: So the headline here is Nvidia is
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Ejaaz: to take up to $2 billion worth of equity stake
8:26
Ejaaz: in Elon Musk's xai that's elon
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Ejaaz: musk's ai model company right they they own
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Ejaaz: twitter they own the infamous scruc model which is leading all benchmarks and
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Ejaaz: so this was a pretty major and unexpected announcement um now that we've just
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Ejaaz: spoken about the amd deal josh i do wonder if jensen got kind of pissed and
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Ejaaz: was like well screw you sam i'm gonna remind you that i don't have an overreliance
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Ejaaz: or a oath sworn to open ai on.
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Josh: The conversation that he had with cnbc this morning he made a very explicit
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Josh: point to say um i'm very excited to participate in all of elon's companies i
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Josh: intend on continuing to participate yeah my only regret is that i didn't spend
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Josh: more that i didn't invest more in these amazing companies so it is very clear
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Josh: this is like this is this is war we are fighting
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Ejaaz: I i mean what what's interesting is uh this deal promises elon musk and xai
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Ejaaz: a heck ton of nvidia gpus and these gpus are going to be specifically used for
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Ejaaz: elon musk's major data center called Colossus 2, which we've spoken about on this show before.
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Ejaaz: And if you remember at the time where Elon announced that he was going to build
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Ejaaz: Colossus 2, when he built Colossus 1, Jensen had said, this is the smartest,
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Ejaaz: and most effective man that I've ever seen build a data center.
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Ejaaz: And he had full faith speaking his positivity towards Elon at that time.
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Ejaaz: And we're seeing him kind of like lean into it. But him saying,
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Ejaaz: like, whatever Elon does, I want to be involved in.
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Ejaaz: It also gets me to kind of think that if Sam or AMD is giving away 10% stake
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Ejaaz: in their company to OpenAI, do you remember when Trump announced that the government
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Ejaaz: was taking a 10% stake in Intel, Josh?
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Josh: Do you remember? I do very well. Yeah. And then the price action afterwards.
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Ejaaz: The price action afterwards, which was the stock just surged.
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Ejaaz: But do you remember Jensen's immediate public response to that news, like on the day itself?
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Josh: I'm not sure I do. I would assume it was positive in sentiment,
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Josh: but I don't remember exactly what he said.
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Ejaaz: Oh, no. He went on official record in an interview because he was at a conference
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Ejaaz: that day and he was asked about it where he said,
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Ejaaz: if the government tries anything like that in terms of nationalizing,
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Ejaaz: and he used the word nationalizing of NVIDIA's company, if the government forces
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Ejaaz: him to give over 10%, he will sue them to high haven.
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Ejaaz: So he made it very clear at the start that NVIDIA is not for sale.
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Ejaaz: And it kind of makes Intel and now AMD look a little weak in this move.
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Ejaaz: And he's going the other way and saying, no, I'm going to take a stake in the
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Ejaaz: AI model company because we're the big dogs here.
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Ejaaz: We're top of the S&P and we're going to make it.
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Ejaaz: And do you have any thoughts before I jump into the numbers here?
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Josh: Yeah, when you're the kingmaker, you get to decide these things.
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Josh: I'm not sure Intel really had a choice.
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Josh: Like Intel's choice was to slowly bleed out or get subsidized by the government
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Josh: and become an important company.
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Josh: In a world where they were like declining in relevance um so
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Josh: it was probably a good deal for intel but for yeah
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Josh: of course nvidia would never have to deal with this they have far too much leverage and
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Josh: if they and if anyone has a problem with it well it's too
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Josh: damn bad no one else makes gpus as good as they do um so
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Josh: i found that interesting one of the other things i found most interesting about this
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Josh: deal was the actual dynamics of the deal because this
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Josh: wasn't a traditional like we're investing in you we're getting an equity swap
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Josh: it uses special purpose vehicles it uses gpus as collateral there's a lot of
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Josh: these like weird technically nuanced things about this deal that i think makes
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Josh: it unique that i would love to walk through you guys if you have any um yeah
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Josh: i guess walk us through this this detailed post here on twitter yeah
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Ejaaz: So so here's my understanding of this um nvidia didn't invest directly in xai
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Ejaaz: but they invested into an spv a special purpose uh vehicle which you know a
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Ejaaz: lot of these companies do to kind of like get around certain organizational
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Ejaaz: hierarchical structures.
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Ejaaz: And this SPV, I think in total, was raising around $20 billion.
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Ejaaz: $12.5 billion in debt, and the rest $7.5 billion in actual equity.
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Ejaaz: NVIDIA is putting the $2 billion of their investment in that $7.5 billion of equity.
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Ejaaz: So this is an equity-only thing. It's not in debt. It's going purely to XI,
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Ejaaz: which is really interesting going a layer deeper nvidia is not actually putting
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Ejaaz: this money directly into their hands it's coming in the form of gpus josh,
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Ejaaz: And so if you recognize the pattern that's happening, that's what AMD was doing
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Ejaaz: with OpenAI that we just spoke about.
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Ejaaz: So it's kind of becoming this deal, which is laid out by this tweet over here,
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Ejaaz: where he goes, I think we're watching the new financing model for GPU buildouts emerge.
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Ejaaz: The funding is tied straight to the hardware. So if a project fails,
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Ejaaz: the lenders can seize the GPUs because they hold their own value.
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Ejaaz: So in effect, NVIDIA's chips are effectively turning into their own asset class.
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Ejaaz: Isn't that insane? It's basically saying GPUs are the new gold.
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Ejaaz: Like screw your equity, screw the money or any kind of collateral that you have
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Ejaaz: or that bank lending deposit that you've taken out. I don't care.
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Ejaaz: I want your GPUs. And if you screw me over, I'm going to recall them.
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Josh: Yeah, this is amazing. It's like it feels like a gold standard,
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Josh: except for GPUs. They are these very highly coveted, highly complex things that
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Josh: are the only thing that matters in a world that is run by AGI.
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Josh: And to me, this deal is such a fun, forward-looking way of viewing the world,
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Josh: denominating value in GPUs versus dollars.
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Josh: Because, I mean, we know the dollar is kind of like, we're in this inflationary
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Josh: thing, our spending purchasing power is going down, but GPUs are the inverse of that.
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Josh: And using these GPUs as collateral is such a fun and fascinating way of structuring the deal.
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Josh: So why did xai do this well they kind
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Josh: of they need a way to get more power because
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Josh: obviously is exploding um their colossus supercomputer
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Josh: already has 100 000 gpus and this
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Josh: deal helps extend that in a huge way uh so nvidia wants to stay on that's the
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Josh: top dog of ai chips especially after that deal with open ai and amd and xai
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Josh: needs these gpus and they need more money to buy these gpus so who is the best
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Josh: person to raise all this money from well the person who's making all the the GPUs, NVIDIA.
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Josh: And if this deal works and if this
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Josh: Actually plays out as described by Jensen and Elon and the whole XAI team.
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Josh: Well, they're very quickly trending towards not only the world's first gigawatt
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Josh: cluster, but the world's first multi-gigawatt cluster with a couple of hundred
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Josh: coherent GPUs. And these things are happening very quickly.
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Josh: And it was clear based on the conversation that I heard Jensen have this morning
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Josh: that he is very bullish on the XAI team.
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Josh: And he very strongly believes that they have all the resources to
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Josh: do so and is willing to give them basically whatever they need
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Josh: in order to make it a reality because the downstream effects one are
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Josh: that um well jensen just sells a ton of
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Josh: gpus but two um the xai
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Josh: team is very much showcasing the full
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Josh: capacity of nvidia the company it's like
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Josh: if you actually have all of the
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Josh: ability to manufacture these data centers and build them quickly well
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Josh: this is how amazing their results can be if you use our product so it's
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Josh: a win-win for everyone it was a really cool deal um i think
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Josh: this is this is an exciting new paradigm where we are denominating in
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Josh: gpus and as a result just very
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Josh: bullish on nvidia man like through all this they seem to be in the best position
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Josh: they have nothing but growth there is no world in which the nvidia market cap
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Josh: does not keep going up like i i do i very much understand the 10 trillion dollar
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Josh: uh market cap like sure maybe there's some spending bubble but long-tail effects
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Josh: of this are huge this is a trend that is not changing for a very very long time i
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Ejaaz: Just want to point out this is a public service announcement for all the doomers
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Ejaaz: out there that are listening to this.
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Ejaaz: Everyone is investing in this thing. Everyone's rolling the dice.
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Ejaaz: Everyone's taking this big bet.
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Ejaaz: And you're seeing the leaders of this industry, like we have on this tweet up
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Ejaaz: here from Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI,
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Ejaaz: saying, we're working to build
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Ejaaz: as much compute as we can as quickly as we can over the next few years.
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Ejaaz: And he goes on to make the point that I think everyone is underestimating
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Ejaaz: the demand for compute that ai will have
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Ejaaz: so instead of all the doomers uh that are saying hey we're
16:41
Ejaaz: in a capex bubble you know agi hasn't emerged yet
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Ejaaz: um the front runners the leaders of this entire show is telling us through these
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Ejaaz: major investments in compute hardware and the deals that they're making that
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Ejaaz: compute is necessary and they're going to roll the dice betting on this industry
16:58
Ejaaz: um and there's a wider point here josh which uh i'm wondering if you agree with, which is.
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Ejaaz: It's make or break for America at this point.
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Ejaaz: I tweeted about this yesterday because I was just kind of like thinking about
17:10
Ejaaz: this whole like America versus China thing. And, you know, we're going to have
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Ejaaz: a robot episode coming out tomorrow.
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Ejaaz: And China's like, in my opinion, leading ahead over there. But it's like,
17:20
Ejaaz: how does America win here?
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Ejaaz: Like they need to take these big bets. They need to perhaps take a 10% stake
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Ejaaz: for the government and kind of like bring all manufacturing on shore and ramp
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Ejaaz: up their robotics investments and push S&P to all-time highs every single week.
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Ejaaz: Because if they don't, we risk losing it all.
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Ejaaz: And I think that that is just full-on startup mode for America.
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Ejaaz: And I'm excited to see where it goes.
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Josh: I like the idea of just turning blinders to China and not really paying attention
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Josh: and just keeping the focus on us in-house.
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Josh: To back in again to your $10 trillion valuation, one of the things that I've
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Josh: just began to realize recently is the fact that basically the entire world runs on CPU architecture.
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Josh: Like everything is run on cpus it's like
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Josh: that's how we use computers that is how all the computers that
18:06
Josh: you look at across the world run but with the advent
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Josh: of ai and most recently reinforcement learning and
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Josh: inference where much more tokens are generated or
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Josh: required to be generated in order to give a better response there are
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Josh: like these two forces at play where one while the natural flow of this ai innovation
18:24
Josh: is leading to exponentially more tokens needed to be generated and two all those
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Josh: tokens are generated on a gpu so if you believe in the idea that ai will be
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Josh: ambient throughout all the computing in the world then you also kind of have to believe
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Josh: the entire CPU architecture of the world needs to flip over to GPUs.
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Josh: And in the world that that's true, that displaces everything with the processor inside of it.
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Josh: It is a ginormous industry, bigger than anything that we have like currently today by a long shot.
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Josh: So to say that a company like NVIDIA still has a 2 to 2.5x left in it seems
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Josh: very reasonable in that basis, where if you believe that AI is the future,
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Josh: if you believe reinforcement learning and inference training,
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Ejaaz: It kind of seems undervalued.
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Josh: It does. On a short time scale, no one has any idea what the hell is going to
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Josh: happen. But over a long period of time, this is very much a sticky trend.
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Josh: And there's one company very clearly at the forefront.
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Josh: So bullish on NVIDIA, bullish on GPUs, bullish on all these deals.
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Ejaaz: Don't forget NVIDIA started off as a gaming GPU, gaming hardware company.
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Josh: That's how we know about them. Because, dude, I'm a freaking...
19:31
Josh: I loved gaming. I built my own custom PC.
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Ejaaz: Tell us the law. Tell us the law.
19:35
Josh: Josh. Well, I used to. i gamed all the time and i built a custom
19:38
Josh: pc to play games on and the thing that
19:40
Josh: you bought was the nvidia gpus and i would
19:43
Josh: always just buy the newest nvidia gpu and then eventually well when
19:46
Josh: ethereum came around they started being used for for like
19:49
Josh: ethereum mining you could buy some gpus for that and then
19:52
Josh: eventually it kind of pivoted to back to gaming where these
19:56
Josh: things would sell out instantly so i used to do like sneaker reselling
19:59
Josh: and reselling bots you would try to buy the gpus to
20:02
Josh: resell them because they were so rare and so difficult to get um and
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Josh: now it's like it's kind of leveled
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Josh: up from like the gamers to the miners to like
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Josh: the computer nerds to like the largest superpowers in the world and now everyone
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Josh: wants the gpu so listen i'm not saying actually i am saying that these nerdy
20:19
Josh: gamers like what they're doing on the weekends you really got to pay attention
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Josh: to it because they are ahead of the trend sometimes so early that it seems indistinguishable
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Josh: from like a stupid toy, but they were very much right.
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Josh: I have had NVIDIA GPUs for well over a decade and I probably should have used
20:35
Josh: that as signal to buy some more stock because my God, what an incredible company.
20:38
Ejaaz: Jensen Huang is on a legendary run and the computer nerds are winning.
20:42
Ejaaz: What a world my 13-year-old self would never believe in if I had told him this now.
20:49
Ejaaz: Okay, so Josh, we have a few more items to cover.
20:53
Ejaaz: Let's get through it. what one tiny item is open
20:57
Ejaaz: ai had a pretty big week and when i say big week i i actually mean major week
21:02
Ejaaz: and and what other week is not major for open ai recently um check out these
21:06
Ejaaz: stats they announced 800 million weekly chat gpt users josh this was 500 million,
21:17
Ejaaz: four months ago.
21:18
Josh: Wait, Ejaz, I pulled some fun stats about this 800 million weekly active users number.
21:22
Josh: So that means one in every 10 people on earth is using their product every week.
21:26
Josh: If users were a country, it would be the third largest nation on earth behind only China and India.
21:33
Josh: You can fill 8,000 Super Bowls every week with your audience and still have
21:38
Josh: people waiting outside.
21:39
Josh: And every minute, 79,000 people are using it.
21:43
Josh: That's more than an entire football stadium logging in every
21:46
Josh: 60 seconds so this is like a outrageous
21:49
Josh: amount of weekly active users and weekly should
21:53
Josh: not be confused with monthly active users which i'm sure is far more where they
21:58
Josh: they have to be gradually approaching among the largest user bases in the world
22:02
Josh: i guess maybe behind meta i'm not even sure who else would be up in that category
22:06
Josh: but this is a tremendously large number to do so and not that long of a time period and
22:12
Ejaaz: I think the other major number to pay attention to here is the 4 million developers.
22:17
Ejaaz: Now, one thing to be wary of is your product is only as good as your users say
22:24
Ejaaz: it is, but your product only gets better as much as your developers have access
22:29
Ejaaz: to it, as much as your developers want to build on it.
22:32
Ejaaz: Having 4 million developers focusing on one singular product,
22:36
Ejaaz: which has pretty much been ChatGPT up until this announcement,
22:40
Ejaaz: which we're seeing on the screen, which is from their OpenAI Dev Day this week,
22:43
Ejaaz: is absolutely insane and we have
22:45
Ejaaz: an entire episode josh and i covered this immediately after the stream we were
22:49
Ejaaz: one of the first uh brands to put out an episode on this go and check it out
22:54
Ejaaz: it's on our youtube page spotify or wherever you listen to stuff um but one
22:57
Ejaaz: of my favorite takeaways from
22:59
Ejaaz: this josh was the uh apps sdk um do you remember this this is basically,
23:04
Ejaaz: a new upgrade, which will allow you to chat with apps in your chat GPT.
23:11
Ejaaz: And whilst we've spoken about this already, and I've given you my thoughts,
23:15
Ejaaz: I had a really interesting conversation with my girlfriend yesterday,
23:20
Ejaaz: which was she was like, what do you mean you could chat to apps?
23:22
Ejaaz: And I walked her through the process.
23:23
Ejaaz: I said, like, well, remember how we're kind of like looking at potentially new
23:27
Ejaaz: places to move to in America or around the world?
23:29
Ejaaz: And you know how you usually type in a prompt and you're like hey like
23:32
Ejaaz: where do i want to live like uh tell me the top places or
23:35
Ejaaz: neighborhoods in this city and then she's like yeah well
23:38
Ejaaz: now you can say um what are some of
23:41
Ejaaz: the top listings for a home to rent or buy there
23:44
Ejaaz: and it taps into zillow and then you could say well i want to set up viewings
23:48
Ejaaz: for these uh places i'm gonna visit there next week and they're like cool do
23:52
Ejaaz: you want me to book a flight for you do you want me to book um the bookings
23:55
Ejaaz: for the listings for you let me give access to your calendar and it does all
23:59
Ejaaz: of these things for it makes your life easier.
24:02
Ejaaz: But the thought that I had here, Josh, was this is a completely new way for
24:08
Ejaaz: the app builders themselves to interact with this new paradigm.
24:13
Ejaaz: What I mean by that is your app now no longer caters to humans.
24:17
Ejaaz: It caters to these AI models. It caters to these AI agents.
24:21
Ejaaz: And I think that that is not too dissimilar from brands going from brick and
24:27
Ejaaz: mortar physical stores where they had to care about location.
24:31
Ejaaz: They had to care about foot traffic. They had to care about where they position
24:35
Ejaaz: their products when people walked in to online e-commerce, where suddenly people
24:41
Ejaaz: had to worry about SEO and becoming number one in Google's search page and search rankings.
24:46
Ejaaz: So in my opinion, this is like another jump. It's another jump to a different
24:50
Ejaaz: medium, which people are figuring out in real time. And I don't think they've prepped for.
24:54
Ejaaz: And that was just my takeaway that I had to share because i was like oh my god
24:58
Ejaaz: like this is completely like paradigm shifting.
25:00
Josh: Yeah they're eating the world i think we see similar dynamics between
25:03
Josh: open ai and nvidia in the sense that they have
25:06
Josh: what everyone wants which is one case is gpus but
25:09
Josh: the other case is users and if you have 800 million weekly active users and
25:13
Josh: you have an opportunity to plug in to that user flow and actually add value
25:16
Josh: to the user experience that's a no-brainer and it is very clear that open ai
25:21
Josh: is now just trying to bring everyone to them and serve as an aggregator to the outside world.
25:27
Josh: And I think that's great because they're definitely the best equipped to actually do that.
25:32
Josh: Um, so yeah, that, that was an interesting little thing this week.
25:35
Josh: Again, for people who don't know, um, or who aren't up to date,
25:38
Josh: we did drop the episode yesterday.
25:40
Josh: So check it out. Do you want to talk about Sora here? Sora update number one? I see a Sam on blog post.
25:44
Ejaaz: I would love to. So Sora update number one, but it is also officially the number
25:49
Ejaaz: one app in the app store, Josh.
25:52
Ejaaz: Um, so this, this week or a week ago, uh, OpenAI announced their new text to
25:59
Ejaaz: video model, but they did it with a twist.
26:02
Ejaaz: They also announced a brand new social media platform which is kind of like
26:06
Ejaaz: tiktok but every single video is ai generated josh and i kind of hated on it
26:11
Ejaaz: and i kind of rounded off the episode with maybe this might work maybe it won't
26:15
Ejaaz: and i have to say i've ended up loving it since um i've i've created a sorry i'll have.
26:20
Josh: You know why i've got to tell me why
26:22
Ejaaz: Okay i'll tell you why i'll tell you why and uh i don't
26:25
Ejaaz: know if i'm too proud to announce why but i'll say it anyway um
26:29
Ejaaz: i like seeing myself feature in all these
26:31
Ejaaz: random fantasies or ideas that i can come up with
26:34
Ejaaz: but but but more so i like doing
26:37
Ejaaz: it with my friends i can cameo uh david hoffman i can cameo you in a fun little
26:44
Ejaaz: video if i have a fun little idea and share it with you and i i have to say
26:47
Ejaaz: i'm not doing it with the idea of like josh look how real this is wouldn't it
26:51
Ejaaz: be cool i'm not like sending you a hint saying like i wish we could do this
26:54
Ejaaz: it's more like isn't this a funny meme.
26:56
Ejaaz: Like, look at us joking around. You and I would never do this.
26:59
Ejaaz: And so I guess that novelty hasn't worn off for me and hasn't worn off for a
27:03
Ejaaz: heck ton of other people.
27:05
Ejaaz: Reaching number one in the app store is no joke.
27:08
Josh: Yeah, I think, I mean, for me, I haven't even opened up the app in like two or three days.
27:11
Josh: So it has lost the stickiness for me. But I think I share your enthusiasm in
27:16
Josh: the sense that, again, this is a company with 800 million active users that
27:20
Josh: just dropped a social media application on a whim just to test things.
27:24
Josh: And I really, I admire that about Sam and the OpenAI team as their willingness
27:28
Josh: to experiment and to increasingly break down borders.
27:32
Josh: I mean, the copyright thing was one of them where you can make your videos with
27:36
Josh: like Pokemon or SpongeBob or these copyrighted characters and their willingness
27:39
Josh: to kind of bend the rules a little bit in terms of shipping faster and innovating faster.
27:43
Josh: I really admire. So I expect this to be a directional trend with OpenAI where
27:48
Josh: we see a lot of new technology applications,
27:51
Josh: product just being launched and just seeing which ones stick which ones don't
27:54
Josh: but using them as these platforms to kind of complete the development circle
27:59
Josh: where new technology pair it with a product release the product and just see
28:02
Josh: what happens and Sora overwhelming success I mean number one in the app store
28:07
Josh: All of this, like all of these viral videos that I'm seeing on Instagram and
28:11
Josh: TikTok and everything like it, it's a really big deal.
28:13
Ejaaz: So most of the virality is not happening on Sora though, right?
28:18
Ejaaz: It's happening on like Instagram and TikTok. I've seen a million Sora videos
28:22
Ejaaz: that have got like millions of likes and hundreds of millions of views,
28:25
Ejaaz: not on the actual Sora app. So that's probably like a loop that they need to tie in.
28:29
Ejaaz: But I have to push back on you a little bit, Josh, because whilst they were
28:33
Ejaaz: brave with going down the, hey, we're going to infringe on a bunch of copyright
28:39
Ejaaz: and you can sue us or opt out or whatever.
28:42
Ejaaz: They've kind of been backtracking on that this week as well.
28:45
Ejaaz: They've basically been removing a bunch of copyrighted material.
28:49
Ejaaz: And it's resulted in an experience where when people are trying to create videos,
28:53
Ejaaz: and I've seen this myself, you just get an error message saying,
28:56
Ejaaz: sorry, we can't create that video. It's been prohibited.
29:00
Ejaaz: And after that happens two to three times i'm kind of disenchanted i'm disincentivized
29:05
Ejaaz: to create a video because i'm like well what can i create the whole point of
29:07
Ejaaz: me coming here is uh me creating a video with um super mario brothers and running
29:12
Ejaaz: in the game with them right and now i can't do that so so what's the point.
29:16
Josh: Yeah i will say the benefit of doing
29:18
Josh: that five days in versus on day zero is
29:22
Josh: this like huge astronomical difference because we
29:25
Josh: did get those five days of virality it did get to number one i
29:28
Josh: did see in in the time that i was interested in
29:31
Josh: the application it was fantastic because it had none of the
29:33
Josh: guy rails so even though they are adding them retroactively i
29:37
Josh: do like the fact that they were able to do that on day five instead of
29:40
Josh: day zero and i think that may have been the difference between number
29:43
Josh: one in the app store and just like a vibes like meta
29:46
Josh: experiment where it's just it's just lame off the bat like you
29:49
Josh: never even get a chance to try the unhinged version at least
29:51
Josh: we got a little taste of the unhinged version and then also just one
29:54
Josh: little comment for the people who made it to the end of our last episode i
29:57
Josh: did drop some sort of two codes for the people who commented i gave
30:00
Josh: you all of them i have none left so he just if you have any more please
30:04
Josh: drop them for the nice people um but thank
30:06
Josh: you for for listening and replying all of mine got taken i
30:09
Josh: was like doing a little ponzi scheme with my friends where i would invite one
30:12
Josh: and then take the four invites so i could drop more um i'm out i got nothing
30:16
Josh: left but thank you for commenting anyway um and we'll try to get more we'll
30:20
Josh: try to refill them because i want to give the people who listen a little reward
30:23
Josh: especially for those that make it to the end so thank you again yeah but yeah yeah um
30:28
Ejaaz: Yeah as josh mentioned we are working with open
30:30
Ejaaz: ai to get you a bunch of codes for limitless listeners
30:34
Ejaaz: you guys have been the most enthusiastic ever so we have
30:37
Ejaaz: got you there all right josh apple is potentially
30:40
Ejaaz: shelving the development of their cheaper
30:43
Ejaaz: lighter vision pro revamp called the vision
30:46
Ejaaz: air because they might want to create a bunch of spectacles you know some glasses
30:51
Ejaaz: that do ai stuff similar to metaglasses and maybe even similar to what um open
30:57
Ejaaz: air might release what do you have to say to that because i got a pretty smug
31:00
Ejaaz: face uh on my i've got a pretty smug look on my face right now because i thought
31:05
Ejaaz: vision pro was the future
31:07
Ejaaz: I thought they were going to create something cool new and now they're going to be making glasses.
31:09
Josh: I have a couple of points to this. The first point I want to make is about the
31:12
Josh: glasses that exist in the market,
31:14
Josh: particularly regarding yours that you ordered a couple of weeks ago.
31:16
Josh: Where are they? Where are those MetaQuest glasses? They're not here.
31:19
Josh: Yeah. Why are they not here? They haven't even shipped the damn product.
31:22
Josh: No one could get the freaking thing.
31:23
Josh: They don't work. They suck. They're not delivering them. They're not available.
31:27
Josh: There's no prescriptions available. If you have glasses, you literally cannot
31:30
Josh: wear them because they do not support a lot of prescriptions.
31:32
Josh: It's just like this disaster of a release. It's not a real product.
31:35
Ejaaz: I'm looking at my email. right now and it still says hasn't been it's not even
31:40
Ejaaz: out for delivery garbage.
31:42
Josh: I'm being screwed oh my god see listen i
31:46
Josh: hate saying i told you so but you know maybe i told you so anyways
31:49
Josh: one day um there is no serious player in the
31:52
Josh: glasses market right now so that is one reason
31:55
Josh: why um i think there's a lot of things happening at apple that
31:58
Josh: are probably contributing to this one of them one of the most important ones actually
32:00
Josh: is the leadership shake-up that we're seeing now there's been a lot of executives
32:03
Josh: in the apple c-suite that have been around for decades multiple decades plus
32:07
Josh: and a lot of them are either leaving or restructuring or changing where they're
32:11
Josh: going to be tim cook is making it clear that um he is starting to transition
32:15
Josh: out of the ceo spot there will be the new i think he's the chief of product
32:19
Josh: the chief product engineer john
32:20
Josh: terminus john termis uh yeah awesome they've recently started giving a lot of
32:25
Josh: publicity he's likely to step into the ceo slot i'm hoping he has a role in
32:28
Josh: strategic changes in the company because OpenAI is very much, or oh my God, OpenAI,
32:34
Josh: Tim Cook is very much an operator. He's a business operator.
32:38
Josh: He ran Apple from like whatever small market cap they were to this astronomical
32:42
Josh: giant they are today. But as a result, product innovation suffered.
32:45
Josh: So with a new product leader at the forefront leaving this company,
32:49
Josh: I'm hopeful that they will start to take their products much more seriously.
32:52
Josh: And perhaps the glasses are a pivot to that.
32:55
Josh: I think the Vision Pro, and I think a lot of people kind of think that is a
32:58
Josh: stepping stone towards the glasses form factor.
33:02
Josh: Switching from improving the Vision Pro to just going right for the glasses,
33:05
Josh: I would like to believe means that they have just kind of innovated a little
33:09
Josh: faster than they initially intended.
33:12
Josh: We saw the technology get micro-sized for the iPhone Air.
33:16
Josh: I think that's a really good proof of concept. We saw the really small displays,
33:20
Josh: all the compute being left in the plateau.
33:22
Josh: It's this like really elegant, beautiful device. They stick down in glasses.
33:25
Josh: They have a killer product.
33:26
Josh: I think this is the right move. I'm a little disappointed because man the Vision
33:30
Josh: Pros are fantastic I mean look at this photo they're amazing they work so well
33:34
Josh: I don't have a pair no because they were $3,500 it's a lot of money to justify
33:37
Josh: something I won't use that much
33:40
Josh: because there's just again there's no ecosystem developer support but as a product
33:43
Josh: they're amazing so it makes me sad that
33:45
Josh: We're not getting a ton of innovation on that front, but I'm hopeful this means
33:49
Josh: that the glasses will come sooner.
33:50
Josh: And when Apple delivers glasses, Ejaz, I promise you, they will be actually good.
33:54
Josh: And they will deliver them on time, and they will have high-resolution displays,
33:58
Josh: and they will have a lot of utility in an ecosystem that you actually participate
34:02
Josh: in instead of this weird siloed meta thing.
34:05
Ejaaz: And it'll just come out in 2030 or 2035, maybe. Yeah, we'll just have to wait a decade.
34:10
Josh: It'll be a long time. So don't expect glasses anytime soon. But in the meantime,
34:15
Josh: we will have hardware from OpenAI that we can actually enjoy because we'll have
34:18
Josh: some good hardware on the AI front, which I think will hopefully be able to
34:22
Josh: hold us over until our super cool glasses get released.
34:24
Josh: But I think that's probably everything, right? Unless you got more beef,
34:28
Josh: unless you want to find some more about Apple.
34:30
Ejaaz: No, no, no, no. I largely agree with your point of view. I just have been bearish
34:36
Ejaaz: at the way that they've been delivering.
34:37
Ejaaz: I hope this new leadership change actually happens, Josh. and if they're putting
34:41
Ejaaz: a hardware guy at the helm, that is extremely bullish because that means he's
34:46
Ejaaz: going to come up with a new hardware product and he's probably not going to
34:49
Ejaaz: be another, it's probably not going to be another iPhone.
34:51
Ejaaz: It's probably going to be something major. He wants to put his foot down,
34:54
Ejaaz: stamp his kind of like legacy. So I'm excited about that.
34:56
Ejaaz: But that is it for this week's roundup episode, folks.
35:00
Ejaaz: As Josh mentioned, the thing that we're giving out are Sora codes.
35:05
Ejaaz: Josh may not have many right now, but he will have plenty in about two days
35:09
Ejaaz: time when I get a response from the OpenAI folks, Josh. That is the latest update, by the way.
35:13
Josh: Okay, all right. Because I was going to say, don't promise the people we can't
35:15
Josh: give, but we do have insider info.
35:17
Ejaaz: We do have insider info. So this week, Josh, what should we incentivize listeners
35:23
Ejaaz: to do to get an invite code? You get to pick this week.
35:27
Josh: Well, they could just say that they made it to the end of it.
35:29
Josh: Like, do you want to give them a keyword or something? Like,
35:31
Josh: if you're still watching this episode, you deserve everything.
35:33
Josh: The fact that you're stuck with us for like almost 40 minutes,
35:35
Josh: like, whatever I could give, please take it. So comment.
35:39
Ejaaz: Jensen huang he's the guy comment jensen huang and we'll get you a sora code.
35:44
Josh: Okay ijaz is gonna get you the story he's like plugged into this whole of an
35:47
Josh: hour world he's the one that chatted the people early in this week check out
35:50
Josh: the episode if you haven't it's fantastic all about memory and pulse we'll work
35:53
Josh: on getting you those codes you could try sora and then you could let us know
35:56
Josh: if you like it or hate it because i'm very much in the hater basket ijaz is a lover
36:01
Josh: but i want you to have the opportunity to try and if you haven't please don't
36:05
Josh: forget to like the videos subscribe share with your friends all the good things
36:08
Josh: and we're back tomorrow with an exciting episode about robots there's a new
36:11
Josh: robot announcement no one knows it yet but it's coming and it's going to be
36:15
Josh: tomorrow we're going to talk all about it and i will see you guys then thank
36:17
Josh: you for watching peace oh
36:20
Ejaaz: And cameo us on sora yay.