Genon: Is there a market for this? The answer to that is probably no at this point in time. They're attacking the cray margelet cray super computers, like that kind of stuff. But i think jenson's psychology here is sort of twofold. One is he is enamoured with this market. He loves the idea that they can develop hardware to accelerate specific use cases that he finds sort of fanciful. And he likes the idea of making it more possible to do more things for humanity with computers. So, you know, here we come.
By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into building a highly speculative platform with few clear use cases and no obviously large market opportunity. And then... a miracle happened. A miracle that led not only to Nvidia becoming the 8th largest market cap company in the world, but also nearly every internet and technology innovation that’s happened in the decade since. Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on Nvidia.
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