Jensen Huang is the CEO of computer chip maker Nvidia. He was born in Taiwan and went to a Christian boarding school in Kentucky as a child. As a teenager, he became a nationally ranked table tennis player. His company has been around for 30 years but only just started making chips that can do more than one thing at a time.
A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat?
Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia. Here’s how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth.
Plus: Kevin, Casey and the New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger answer Hard Questions from listeners.
Today’s Guest:
- Kate Conger is a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times.
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