Jensen Huang: The Doomer Hoax, Superintelligence Is Here, and The Future of AI (ft. President Trump)

(0:00) Jensen Huang joins The Besties! (1:39) Thoughts on Dario's blog, Frontier Labs calling to slow down AI, and Doomer psychology (9:58) Sensible AI regulation and RSI (16:05) Hugging Face acquisition, future of Open Source, and the race with China (22:58) President Trump calls in live to discuss the Doomer Hoax (31:29) The AI boom and Nvidia's capital allocation strategy (40:21) Nvidia's Open Source model ambitions, thoughts on Elon's Terafab Thanks to our partners for making this possible! IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, delivering data centers, compute and software for AI training and inference. https://iren.com/ Oracle connects the data, applications, and infrastructure that turn AI into business outcomes—with the flexibility, choice, and control to optimize as AI evolves. http://oracle.com/ai EY helps tech innovators scale from startup to exit to megacap. You build the future. We'll handle the rest. http://www.ey.com Meta believes the future is for everyone. We're focused on giving every person the tools to reach their full potential and making sure the benefits of technology are distributed to all. http://www.meta.com/http://www.meta.com Keel Infrastructure owns the power, land, and connectivity that HPC and AI run on - backed by secured energy assets and established grid interconnections across North America. https://keelinfra.com/ Airwallex - Agentic Global Business Accounts. Open local accounts in 70+ countries to accept payments, earn yield, pay globally, and manage spend. http://airwallex.com PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com Google for Startups connects founders with the right people, products, and best practices to help startups build faster and go further. https://startup.google.com/ Explore ideas, industries, and technologies worth understanding with Chamath every week on Learn with Me: https://research.socialcapital.com/allin Follow Jensen: https://x.com/JensenHuang Follow the besties: https://x.com/chamath https://x.com/Jason https://x.com/DavidSacks https://x.com/friedberg Follow on X: https://x.com/theallinpod Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theallinpod Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allin Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allinpod Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://x.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit: https://x.com/TheZachEffect

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• 0:00Jensen Huang?

  Some people call it vision. Vision is an awfully big word to me because I believe, first of all, vision matters.

• 0:09Jason Calacanis?

  We preempted the weekly show and there's only three people we preempt the show for. President Trump, Jesus, and Jensen.

• 0:18Jensen Huang?

  The number one podcast in the world.

• 0:20Speaker 02

  That's Jensen Huang.

• 0:21Speaker 03

  He's the founder, president, CEO of Nvidia.

• 0:23Speaker 02

  Whether you know it or not, his decisions are shaping your future.

• 0:26Speaker 03

  Nvidia is the most important stock in this market and Jensen is arguably the best executive in history.

• 0:31Speaker 04

  Revenue exploded 97% year over year.

• 0:34Jensen Huang?

  Not only is demand already strong, it's actually accelerating. Nvidia is the only computing platform that is a full stack AI factory. A GPU is like a time machine because it lets you see the future sooner. And if we could see the future and we can predict the future, then we have a better chance of making that future the best version of it.

• 0:55Jason Calacanis?

  Please welcome Jensen Huang.

• 1:01Jason Calacanis?

  Oh, we got a standing O on the way in.

• 1:04Jensen Huang?

  Wow, come on.

• 1:05Jason Calacanis?

  Standing O, standing O on the way in.

• 1:10Jason Calacanis?

  That's our guy.

• 1:12Jason Calacanis?

  Ladies and gentlemen, GPU Jesus.

• 1:19Jason Calacanis?

  They love you.

• 1:20Chamath Palihapitiya?

  They love you.

• 1:21Jensen Huang?

  Thank you. I love you back.

• 1:22Jason Calacanis?

  We like the new jacket.

• 1:23Jensen Huang?

  Podcast in the world.

• 1:25Jason Calacanis?

  Absolutely.

• 1:26Jensen Huang?

  Wow.

• 1:27Jason Calacanis?

  We like the new jacket.

• 1:28Jensen Huang?

  Well, you know.

• 1:29Jason Calacanis?

  The auction de ome.

• 1:29Jensen Huang?

  I just, I felt you guys needed some energy.

• 1:33Jason Calacanis?

  Yes.

• 1:34Jensen Huang?

  I know we're talking about serious stuff here, but we need to talk about it with energy.

• 1:38Jason Calacanis?

  Yes.

• 1:39Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Let's, uh, let's start with this essay from this weekend.

• 1:43Jensen Huang?

  Which one?

• 1:45Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Let's start with Dario's essay because I think.

• 1:47Jensen Huang?

  Was Hemingway involved?

• 1:50Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Actually, did anybody run it through Pangram? I don't even know how much of it was AI helped, but that was a pretty incredible thing. And then I think what a lot of people were surprised by was the coalescing of the frontier labs around the essay itself. Just Jensen, unpack what happened, how you read it, how you interpreted it. And then we'll get into some details that were inside of it, but maybe just the high level thoughts to kick it off.

• 2:14Jensen Huang?

  Well, first of all, there were a lot of stuff in there.

• 2:16Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah.

• 2:17Jensen Huang?

  And, and first, there is a, there's a part about, about safety, which we have to take very seriously. Safety is paramount, obviously.

• 2:27Jensen Huang?

  Safety and leadership are not false, they're false choices. You're, you're able to innovate quickly, you're able to execute quickly and, and America's able to lead and to do it safely. I think those are, those are false choices, but safety is obviously important. There's a matter of, of internal control that I think he was speaking to. Obviously, the, the Coxson whistleblower is very serious matter. Whenever you have a whistleblower, you ought to take it very seriously. I thought Coxson had great courage to put out, put out what his concerns were. And even then, there were some issues that were kind of conflated within that. I think the, the whistleblowing is, is fine.

• 3:11Jensen Huang?

  I think the, the scientific prediction about the future is less fine because it's not grounded on science, obviously. And it was expressed by a scientist, but it was obviously not grounded on science. And so I take, I take issue with that. But obviously the whistleblower part of it, you know, I, I think there's just a whole bunch of stuff. Pausing, pacing, those are all the voluntary things that they could do if they feel that their company is out of control. If Coxson saw something, you know, obviously we didn't, we don't know what Coxson saw, but he, if he saw that the company was out of control and maybe it's a transition from

• 3:56Jensen Huang?

  research to engineering, as you know, these labs are researching, are transitioning from research to engineering, extraordinary talent, extraordinary engineering. But obviously engineering is different than research. Maybe that transition is clumsy, you know, I don't, we don't know what, what he saw and ultimately only he knows. But if there was a, a matter of lack of control, that's a different topic. How should the government deal with it now all of a sudden? Regulation, I mean, it just covers everything in one block.

• 4:24Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Can you just help us sort of unpack? We, we played, we tried to play this game actually this week on the pod and it was difficult, which is how do you describe like, you know, my mom calls me and she's like, Chamath, what is this whole civilizational death thing? I don't know how to explain it to her. So when you have very smart people like that, quantize it and quantify it, I think that's probably what's perturbing to some people. They're like, what does that mean? 10% of extinction? Nobody knows how to explain that to the average person, how that's even possible.

• 4:53Jensen Huang?

  Well, first of all, we shouldn't.

• 4:56Jensen Huang?

  Because it's made up. First of all, I think that.

• 5:03Jensen Huang?

  We shouldn't because it's made up and these are, these are well educated. They're called researchers.

• 5:11Jensen Huang?

  Obviously they're working a lab. And so the confluence of these words and then, and then, and then the prediction is alarming and troubling and it shouldn't be done. It's, it's irresponsible. Now the fact of the matter is, let's go back and look at the real facts. The facts are, there was a prediction that in five years' time, radiology will be completely taken over by artificial intelligence and there'll be no radiologists in the world. That has proven to be exactly the opposite. We need more radiologists than ever in the world. However, AI has taken over radiology completely, which is great. It's automated scan reading, which is great. There was a prediction that within six to 12 months, wasn't it just last year, within

• 5:51Jensen Huang?

  six to 12 months, 90% of code would already be generated by AI. That has turned out to be wrong. Within six to nine months, that was predicted last year, 50% of entry jobs will be wiped out. That has proven to be wrong. Let's see, what else, what else has proven to be wrong? I mean, all of these predictions have been wrong.

• 6:12Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 6:13David Sacks?

  Like that GPT two would be too unsafe to release, that Lama three would be too unsafe to release.

• 6:19Jason Calacanis?

  Oh, one.

• 6:20David Sacks?

  Yeah, we've heard these.

• 6:21Jason Calacanis?

  Half of white collar jobs would be gone next year.

• 6:23David Sacks?

  The jobs apocalypse, yeah.

• 6:25Jensen Huang?

  We have to take accountability, we have to take account for all of the stupid predictions that were made.

• 6:32Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 6:33Jensen Huang?

  Somebody has, somebody has to take.

• 6:38Jensen Huang?

  And so we ought to just keep track of all that. And of course people do and remind us that those, those predictions are inconsistent with ultimately America winning the AI race.

• 6:51Chamath Palihapitiya?

  The short form for that is some people are saying, you know, they say trust the experts and they use the analog of COVID, which again started with people that were researchers, educated people that had an asymmetric awareness of the thing that the rest of us did not, saying things that ultimately turned out, we find out in facts, not to be true. And so there's this war that's happening right now between the trust the experts movement and the, you know, well, let's just look at the actual history of these predictions and let's just think more methodically.

• 7:22Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Where is this coming from? Because it's coming from inside the places that's actually making it. Like what do you think is the psychological makeup or what is the real incentive? Maybe it's a business incentive, maybe it's a political incentive. Can you just maybe guess or how do you, how do you think about what's, why they're doing this?

• 7:38Jensen Huang?

  Well, first of all, I gotta tell you, these are some of the most consequential companies in history. Extraordinary engineers, extraordinary researchers, really fantastic work.

• 7:50Jensen Huang?

  On the one hand, I work very closely with them as companies to companies. On the other hand, we have to have conversations like this in public and it's really unfortunate. And I, I think that, that these, these companies really ought to be built the way that we used to build companies, which is in silence.

• 8:10Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 8:11Jensen Huang?

  You know, and.

• 8:13Jason Calacanis?

  So wait, Jensen, you don't allow anybody in your organization to speak for the entire organization, especially when they're having like a bad weekend or they rage quit, they're, they're not allowed to tweet on your behalf and the organization's behalf?

• 8:25Jensen Huang?

  No, because, well, that's, that's what they decided when they came to work for us. And we told them, these are, this is the way you behave when you work in our company. And if you would like, if you like the culture of our company, which as you know, the Nvidia culture and the Nvidia employee base incredibly happy.

• 8:44Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah.

• 8:45Jensen Huang?

  They like the fact that the company is consistent, that we're stable, that our core values are consistent with taking care of the families and creating the conditions by which they can do their life's work. That we do meaningful work, we do it, we do it as quietly as we can. And we contribute to everybody else's success, which we're very proud of. And so those kinds of core values people are attracted to. But when you come and work in our company, there are also some things that we don't appreciate that you do. Like for example, we don't welcome political discourse in our, inside our company. Take it home. You guys talk about politics outside the company.

• 9:21Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah.

• 9:27Jensen Huang?

  We are, the company is an apolitical company. You know, we're bipartisan. We want America to succeed. And we want, whatever government is in place, we'll do everything in our power to help America succeed. And so the discourse about race and religion and politics and all of that stuff, we tell people, do it outside the company. It's not for us.

• 9:57Chamath Palihapitiya?

  In terms of maybe AI regulation then more narrowly, Satya was here this morning and what he said is, you know, before we talk about regulation that could really stymie things, why don't we just get some basics right? Why don't we get measurement right? Why don't we get standardization right? Right? Where do you land on?

• 10:13Jensen Huang?

  Get engineering right.

• 10:14Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Get the engineering right, right? Translate the research in a more predictable way so that we're not fear mongering. Keep it inside until we're ready to expose it. What do you think the right response is? You know, Demis had a proposal, which was sort of this more FINRA-like organization. It's not clear what Daria wants, this transnational mutated thing that has some sort of control. Where do you land on this, the sort of perspective of what do we need right now?

• 10:38Jensen Huang?

  You know, regulations should solve actual problems. And so the question is, what actual problems have we enjoyed?

• 10:45Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 10:46Jensen Huang?

  And if you look at, look at the actual problems, all of the actual problems so far have come from the labs. And the reason for that, the reason for that, and just in their defense, the reason for that is because they have the most compute.

• 11:01Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 11:02Jensen Huang?

  And the reason for that is because they're trying to solve the frontier problems. And so in their defense, and so it's sensible that the labs, the frontier labs, will be where the most danger come from. It is unlikely that a high school student did something because they just simply won't have enough compute.

• 11:23Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 11:24Jensen Huang?

  And so it's unlikely that a startup will be the reason because they won't have enough compute. It's, in fact, you could look across the planet and everybody won't have enough compute with the exception of the frontier labs. And so now the question is, if you look at what actually happened, and they're doing pioneering work, it's really very hard. They're transitioning from research to engineering. I could imagine, and they're, they're, they're obviously building some of the most consequential technology and companies in the world. They're building their company, they're building their culture, they're building the technology, they're building engineering, they're building products all at the same time. And so I can understand it's a little bit hair on fire.

• 12:05Jensen Huang?

  But nonetheless, the four incidents from one lab, the one giant incident from the other lab, the first thing that you have to do is just root cause the problem from an engineering perspective. What happened? What could we have done differently? And what are we going to implement and institutionalize, whether it's technology or methods or processes, and make sure that we don't let it happen again? Now, I would bet you money that in every single one of those cases is within their control in the future to prevent it. Because the alternative, if it's not in their control, and I'm sure that they are, I'm sure, I'm sure that, I'm sure those four incidents won't happen again, I'm sure they root caused it and fixed it.

• 12:50Jensen Huang?

  I'm sure they have now technology, much better technology for, you know, sandboxes and runtimes and monitors and continuous, continuous monitors and, you know, and so I'm certain they have much, much better technology now. The alternative is also unlikely, which is for them to say, look, we had these incidents, after we're done analyzing it, we came to the conclusion, we don't know anything that happened, and we have no idea how to control it, and we're asking society for help.

• 13:23Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah.

• 13:23Jensen Huang?

  Now, if that's the case, then we ought to, you know, a bunch of, a bunch of companies with engineers ought to send engineers in. I mean, and we should advise them if we can, but I doubt it. I think they, they have extraordinary people that got this handled.

• 13:35Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Well, we're not operating in a vacuum. David, last night you informed me that there is a Chinese lab, the makers of GLM, who are going to put $3 billion towards a recursive self-improvement run. So maybe you could tee that up for James.

• 13:47David Sacks?

  Well, that's what was announced. Yeah, zepu.com, the founder just raised $5 billion and said that one of their priorities is going to be trying to get to recursive, you know, AI that trains the next AI and to try and automate as much of that as possible. Yeah, I think that, I mean...

• 14:04Jensen Huang?

  Well, this is the new sexy phrase. But as you guys know, RSI is a combination of a system of ideas. It starts everything with in-context stuff. It starts with skills, it starts with reflection, it starts with, you know, reinforcement learning and synthetic data generation. And these are all very sensible ideas that causes AI to get better at solving a problem, you know, over time. And you could also have low rank, you know, all of that stuff doesn't include the weights. You could actually improve the weights and it's called LoRa. LoRa could be, could be improved and synthetic data generation, reinforcement learning, enhance it without training the base model itself.

• 14:49Jensen Huang?

  And then over time, you could train the base model again with all of that experience. And so I think, I think it's a sensible thing that, that you're going to use the technology to enhance productivity of all kinds of tasks, including building AI. I think that's a very logical idea. And I'm certain that everybody is using it in some degree. It's just this phrase is now being used to weaponize the technology in some way and maybe to turn the...

• 15:18Chamath Palihapitiya?

  As if it's going to spiral out of control is the impression they're trying to give. But you don't believe that's real.

• 15:24Jensen Huang?

  No, no, of course not. And the reason for that is because you could RSI all day long inside your company, but when you release a product, you've got to evaluate it, don't you? You have to test it again, don't you? You have to make sure that there's no regression, right? And so the basic process of control, these labs are going to, as they move from labs to engineering, they will have much, much better control.

• 15:48Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 15:49Jensen Huang?

  And when they have much better control, and that, and control comes from methods and knowledge and practice and tools and technology. All of those things that leads to better control, verification, any valves, it's going to enable RSI to be done inside the company and for good products to be released outside the company.

• 16:06Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Let's talk about open source for a second. I mean, this hugging face, we were communicating about this and I said it's going to be one of the most consequential acquisitions. I don't even want to call it a transaction because I think it's more important than that. Give us your first principles explanation of open source versus closed source versus open weights and how the ecosystem should fit together over time.

• 16:28Jensen Huang?

  The world needs both closed models and open models. You want, you want to use, I use as much closed models as I can. This weekend I used four of them. And, and they work terrifically, they're frontier, they're great experience, they, right, they work incredibly while they're getting better all the time. And, and the way I think about closed, closed, closed models is kind of like bottled water, you know? Water is free, you guys. I don't know if I've told you guys, but water is free. I don't want to, you know, burst everybody's bubble, but water's free. And this morning I used a lot of free water, taking a shower. And so you use the right water in the right places. And this is no different than electricity, this is, you know, this is no different than all kinds of commodities that we use in the world. You need both.

• 17:13Jensen Huang?

  Now, in the case of open, the reason why you need it is because it could be for sovereignty reasons, privacy reasons, proprietary technology reasons. Look at the facts. The facts are, in the last six months, $400 billion of venture funding went into AI-native companies. 80% of them use open models. If not for open models, how could they build their dream?

• 17:39Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 17:39Jensen Huang?

  Because their dream could be different. Obviously it'd be different than the labs, the frontier labs' dreams. And there's, America has so many different ways to innovate, that's one of our core strengths. Great ideas just coming out of the fountain. And so open models enables that. Open models enables every single, if we want to win the AI race, it's not about a few technology companies winning the AI race. It's about every company in America, every company, every company, every industry, every researcher, every teacher, every student, every startup, everybody wins. Some of them will use closed models, a lot of them will use open models. There's 10 million...

• 18:21Chamath Palihapitiya?

  So let's, well, does it matter? Let me just ask, does it matter if the model, the open models come from China or the US?

• 18:28Jensen Huang?

  Well, we're doing everything we can to make a contribution in open models. However, the moment you download, like for example, probably the vast majority of the world's contribution to open source today is coming from China, they just have a lot more engineers. They produce everything in large scale because it's a larger country. And so they produce science and math students in volume.

• 18:53Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 18:53Jensen Huang?

  That's one of our disadvantages.

• 18:55Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 18:55Jensen Huang?

  They're manufacturing them through amazing universities like Tsinghua University in high volume. Well, they contribute to open source today. We download Linux, we download Kubernetes, we download all the software. A lot of it has been touched by Chinese. And once you download it, it's yours. We fork it, we improve it, we make it ours. And so we, when you download one of these Chinese models, it just happens to be made by some really great researchers in China, but it's now yours.

• 19:25Chamath Palihapitiya?

  So what exactly...

• 19:25Jensen Huang?

  Whatever you want to do with it.

• 19:26Chamath Palihapitiya?

  So what exactly is the race?

• 19:29Jensen Huang?

  The race?

• 19:30Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah.

• 19:31Jensen Huang?

  I think that's, that's a really good point. My point is, the race is really about who exploits the technology best. You know, the last industrial revolution, all of the inventors were Maxwell, Volta, Ampere, none of them were American. They were, right? The last industrial revolution came from Europe. But we exploited it. We took advantage of it socially, better than anybody else in the world, and look how it turned out for us. I want to make sure that this next generation happens just like this.

• 20:03Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah, yeah. So why, why are the communists getting their message out so successfully here right now?

• 20:14Jensen Huang?

  You know, I think, first of all, the narrative is much more practical. The narrative is much more practical. Nobody in China is saying that there's end of this and end of that and, you know, cataclysmic this and, you know.

• 20:30Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Dumber that.

• 20:31Jensen Huang?

  Dumber that.

• 20:31David Sacks?

  They're much more pragmatic about it. They see AI as a technology that's going to advance their economy, advance their society. And they don't have these groups who are basically saying it's going to end civilization.

• 20:43Jensen Huang?

  And we're making it up. The part that is frustrating is if it was true, if it was true, then we ought to talk about it and go do something about it.

• 20:51Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 20:51Jensen Huang?

  Even if it's true, we ought to spend more time doing something about it than worrying a bunch of people who can't do anything about it. It's our job to build it right.

• 21:00David Friedberg?

  And has there ever been a point in history where so many people have so vehemently said something that is so untrue?

• 21:07Jensen Huang?

  And they're measurably, they're actually demonstrably untrue. And it actually makes sense it's untrue. It's not based on science, it's not based on research. Everything that's based on science and research proves otherwise.

• 21:20David Friedberg?

  The fear of the frontier? Humans have never been there, we've never seen it, therefore we're scared of it? And therefore it's easy to tell everyone to be scared of it?

• 21:26Jensen Huang?

  And I think it could be life experience as well, David. So let me give you an example. When I first graduated from school, I was an engineer, and I didn't do that much typing. And the reason for that is because I was the first generation before software became popular. We had to go build the computers to make software possible. Could you imagine, in this generation, every single engineer who came into the world of engineering, you spend all your time typing? Literally, that's what you do. When you get a job, they give you a laptop, they give you a chair, and you start typing. You type all day long. You type from the moment you wake up to the mu... Well, there was engineering before typing.

• 22:06Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 22:07Jensen Huang?

  And so, can you imagine that the world has a mountain of engineering work to do, where most of it is not typing anymore? Sure. We had busy engineers before typing. I think we're going to do a lot of great engineering after typing.

• 22:22Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah.

• 22:23Jensen Huang?

  When I say typing, I mean coding. I mean, and so even at Nvidia, when software engineers talk to me, I tell them, "You're just typing." I've been saying that forever, but obviously for fun. And I tell them, "My favorite key is backspace." And the reason for that is because the best software is the smallest software.

• 22:44Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah.

• 22:45Jensen Huang?

  So I want you to use backspace as often.

• 22:47Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Let's actually talk about Nvidia. Let's do a little teardown of Nvidia. So, teardown meaning just explain the pieces, because there's a lot of strategy at play. Let's start at the absolute bottom.

• 22:58Jensen Huang?

  Oh, no.

• 22:59Chamath Palihapitiya?

  This is not planned, but we know who it is.

• 23:05Jensen Huang?

  Oh, no. No. Mr. President? Oh. Yes, sir. I got to tell you something. If it wasn't because of you calling, I would... I'm on stage with the besties. I'm on stage with the besties. I'm on stage with the besties. I'm on stage with Sacks and, yeah. The whole group. Yeah, Jason's here, Chamath's here, David, David is here. Yeah, I'm sitting in front of a few thousand people. And we're talking, as it turns out, we were talking about you. Good job, sir. Good job.

• 23:50Jensen Huang?

  The fact that you saw through all of that, I mean, there's a lot of complexity, and the fact of the matter is you saw through all of that, and we're all just really grateful.

• 23:57Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Tell him I said hi.

• 24:02David Sacks?

  Do you want to say hi to the crowd?

• 24:06Jensen Huang?

  Jason would like to put you on the...

• 24:08Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Even Jason. Put him on speaker. Speaker mode.

• 24:11Jensen Huang?

  How do we put on POTUS?

• 24:14Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Put him on speaker? Speaker, yeah. Right into the microphone.

• 24:18Jensen Huang?

  Hang on a second, sir.

• 24:19Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Hold on, sir, we're getting a microphone.

• 24:21Jensen Huang?

  Mr. President?

• 24:22Speaker 08

  Yes.

• 24:23Jensen Huang?

  You're now talking to the planet.

• 24:24Speaker 08

  You see, the great thing about life is that Jensen can develop the most complex computer chip in the world that nobody can copy for 10 years, but he can't figure out how to put me on speaker. That is the thing. We have to remember this one. So, no, I just think with the AI, it's almost this conspiracy, and the happiest group is China, and China is very happy. And I could even say in the country, a lot of states are happy that weren't going to get anything because they're being inundated by people that want to be there. But now, all of a sudden, you see they're building in Finland, they want to build one Google, wants to build a big one in Finland, which I'm not happy about, because they weren't able to get permitting.

• 25:09Speaker 08

  And I'm telling you, it's all a hoax. The data centers are great, and they make people wealthy, and they make states wealthy, and it's the oil of the next 20, 25 years. It's bigger than the internet and the AI, you know, much more so. And they're just playing right into the hands of a lot of people that don't want to see it happen, and that could be political people, it could also be China. And we're not going to let that happen. It's a hoax, and...

• 25:37Jensen Huang?

  You're right, we're not going to let that happen, sir.

• 25:39Speaker 08

  Now, we're not going to let it happen. The robots are not going to be taking over the world, and that's not going to happen. You know, my uncle was the top, probably maybe the best of all time, frankly, but professors at MIT for 41, 42 years, and known as being one of the most brilliant men. And he was there for 41 years as the top. He was like at the top, top of the ladder, top of... Did many things, Jensen knows all about it, but did many things. So I have a little genetic, a little genetic strength, if you believe in the resource theory, but I have genetic strength.

• 26:18Jensen Huang?

  That explains why you know so much about AI.

• 26:21Speaker 08

  Well, I know about AI. I know, I also have common sense about AI. The robots will not be taking over, the AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax. Now, with that, we have to be a little bit careful. We have to very be, you know, we have to do things, and we have to do them prudently. But that doesn't mean we're going to stop an industry, because, you know, as we work on the next 10 years about how to destroy it. So I'm with you all the way. I didn't even know how you felt about it. I assumed you felt the same way as me.

• 26:52Jensen Huang?

  Yes, sir.

• 26:53Speaker 08

  And if we're going to lead, and I have an expression, it's whoever wins, AI wins. That's how big it is. It's bigger than the internet. And whoever wins, AI wins, and we can't let this kind of stuff happen. And that includes, very much includes data centers. There are communities that were dying, that have data centers right now, and now they're wealthy communities. Really wealthy communities.

• 27:14Jensen Huang?

  We're going to make sure that, we're going to make sure that everybody, we're going to make sure that everybody wins in the AI race in America. Every industry, every company, every state, every people.

• 27:24Speaker 08

  Good. Well, I feel strongly about it, and I have the position that can do something about it. We're not going to let that stuff happen. So I have no idea who's at the meeting, I have no idea who the hell I'm talking to, but I'll see.

• 27:36Jensen Huang?

  Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Thousands of people are clapping for you, sir.

• 27:44Speaker 08

  All I know, if you're there, you're going to listen to Jensen, but he's done an amazing job, and David has done an amazing job. And good luck to everybody, and we're going to stay with the future. The country has never done better. We have $20 trillion of investment coming into the country, and that's, as opposed to much less than $1 trillion under Sleepy Joe Biden. And that was for four years. This is in one year. So, you know, it's really, the country has, the country has never seen anything like it, and we're going to keep it going. And so, thank you all very much.

• 28:19Jensen Huang?

  Thank you, Mr. President.

• 28:20Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Thank you, Mr. President.

• 28:21Speaker 08

  Thank you, Jensen.

• 28:22Jensen Huang?

  I'll call you back later. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you.

• 28:25Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Well, that was unique. I thought it was a bit. Did you know that was happening? I thought it was a bit.

• 28:32David Sacks?

  You thought it was a bit?

• 28:34Chamath Palihapitiya?

  No, it's real. I thought it was a bit at first, and I was like, "Put him on speakerphone." Wow. And he calls you.

• 28:41David Friedberg?

  Well, how do you think...

• 28:42Chamath Palihapitiya?

  He calls you any hour of the night, right?

• 28:43David Friedberg?

  Well, we were in the Oval that time when he called you.

• 28:47Jensen Huang?

  I was all sleeping, I was in Europe.

• 28:49David Friedberg?

  You were asleep, and he like said, "Wake him up."

• 28:51Chamath Palihapitiya?

  I felt so bad, because he's like, "Who's coming to this dinner?" And we go through the list, and he's like, "Well, what about Jensen?" I said, "No, sir, he's on vacation, because he had to postpone this vacation for five years." And he's like, "Get him on the phone."

• 29:04David Friedberg?

  What's vacation? But why do you think he sees through the hoax? This is the thing I'm asking people.

• 29:09Jensen Huang?

  It is really quite an extraordinary thing.

• 29:10David Friedberg?

  It was, it's polling minus 80.

• 29:12Jensen Huang?

  Yeah.

• 29:13David Friedberg?

  So for anyone else that's sitting in the Oval Office, you're going to do what's popular, you're representing the people, this is what everyone wants, they want to shut down the data centers, end AI. It seems to be the popular thing in the moment, but he says it's a hoax, and he calls it. How does he do that?

• 29:28Jensen Huang?

  I got to tell you, I'm not sure. And the reason for that is because a lot of people are falling for it. And so, the fact of the matter is, it's complicated. You know, at first, I mean, if you look at the story, if you look at the stories, it's all anchored on two things. The first thing that it was anchored on was national security. And recently, that was all blown to bits.

• 29:46Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 29:47Jensen Huang?

  And so, that story is no longer anchored on national security, now it's anchored on safety. Now, if you want AI to be safe, the first thing is we need to make sure that the labs that are building it are in control, that they're good tests for them. If we would like to have third parties to make sure that a third-party evaluator, third-party evaluators are available, that's no different than financial control. You guys know, we have auditors, and the auditors are quite, they don't have to be as expert as we are in our business, but they just have to ask the right questions. And I think I heard somebody say that it's good to have independent auditors or evaluators, but they just have to have multiple. I agree with that, too.

• 30:31Jensen Huang?

  Just as there's multiple evaluated and auditors, it makes sure that one company doesn't become, you know, pilled or somehow influenced for whatever reason. And so, you know, there's a lot of different ways that you could solve this. And so, I think the number one thing is let's build the technology safely, let's make sure that the testing of it is safe. And I recognize completely that what is being built is extraordinary, but these are extraordinary companies, and we ought to hold them to extraordinary standards. And they want to be. And they want to be.

• 31:04Chamath Palihapitiya?

  I wanted to go back to open source for a second. A year ago, we weren't taking it very seriously, it was two years, 18 months behind.

• 31:13Jensen Huang?

  The one thing that, you know, as you guys know, one of the challenges when you're on the call with President Trump is hard to say something.

• 31:24Jensen Huang?

  I'm gonna get in trouble for that, I'm sure. He's gonna call me up on that. But anyhow, what I was gonna tell him and all of you is that AI is creating enormous number of jobs. The thing that he wanted, more than anything at the beginning of the administration, and my first phone call with him, my first time I met him, is that he wants to create jobs in America, he wants to re-industrialize the United States, he wants to make sure that the United States has the energy to support the next industrial revolution. Without energy, there's no industrial growth. And so he wants to make sure that there's energy growth, that there's job growth, that we're re-industrializing the supply chain. Look at everything that we're doing right now. All of it is happening right now as we speak. We're creating more jobs than ever. We're creating software jobs. And we

• 32:09Jensen Huang?

  were just talking about earlier, $400 billion of venture financing went into the AI industry just recently. Six months. Well, that's created a ton of jobs. That's created a ton of jobs. It's created, you know, obviously, enormous amount of demand for compute, which I'm happy about, which is also, which is also creating a lot of demand for data centers. And we had to talk about that. I think I was just, I was talking to Governor Abbott of Texas, and he was, he was, he wants to appeal to the industry to make sure that we are, we are empathetic to the small communities, as we're building data centers all across America, just to be better listeners.

• 32:50Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Let's actually talk about that for a second. That's, what's incredible about Nvidia, if you, if you break down the component parts, is you've effectively had to become the bank of AI to get the ecosystem going. And you've had to do it at all the levels. You know, you just did this thing with Cloverleaf, where you're doing land power shell. You did this great thing with BlackRock and Goldman and all these folks to, to essentially create the financing capability. Walk us through your capital allocation strategy. What has to happen to get a broader ecosystem folks to be able to come in and underwrite this next phase?

• 33:25Jensen Huang?

  Well, we're, we're creating, as you guys know, this is a new industrial revolution. And, and every aspect of it is true. This new industry requires manufacturing, just as, just as the electricity, internet, and now AI. We power anything, we can find anything. Now with AI, we can ask and know anything. Isn't that right? And so that's our future. We tap into the ether, and we can ask it of anything we want, and it could explain it to us. Now, in order for that to happen, it's got to produce the intelligence. And so that's a production process, which is the reason why this infrastructure has to get built. But once you get the infrastructure built, the question is, what about all of

• 34:08Jensen Huang?

  the other layers across the United States? This industry isn't just about the model. It's not just about the chips. It's mostly about the applications on top. It's mostly about the infrastructure layer, the data centers, and all the infrastructure, the construction, the electricity, the power generation, that, all of that is involved. And so I look across the entire ecosystem and look for bottlenecks. And if there are places where extraordinary companies are being built.

• 34:37Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Constraints.

• 34:38Jensen Huang?

  Constraints, extraordinary companies being built, maybe it's a, a, a supply chain that has to get scaled up, so that when we're ready to deploy compute, that they'll be ready for us, land power shell. And so this is no different than looking at the supply chain upstream. You know, I, I probably think about the long-term supply chain more than most, because our company's really large. And, and in order for us to succeed, a whole bunch of companies has to support me. You know, it's got a, Corning has to, you know, Wendola, Corning has to support me, Lumentum, and, you know, TSMC, of course, and memory companies. And, and so we started working with all of these companies

• 35:19Jensen Huang?

  long before the revolution, the, the growth came, so that the growth could happen. Now I'm gonna, now I'm doing a downstream.

• 35:26Chamath Palihapitiya?

  The compute cycle tends to be, though, that the earnings, over time, over long stretches of time, tends to move up the stack, right towards the application layer, where you can over-earn for larger periods of time. I mean, you bought Hugging Face, now you're sort of in the, actively in the serving business. I mean, it seems pretty natural that products like OpenRouter make a lot of sense. It seems pretty obvious that, you know, there are better versions of ways to build things like Bedrock. I'm sure you think about it. What's the natural conclusion? Because it seems like the folks up here have no issue trying to move down. And you have the best balance sheet, these incredible engineers, and you have the proven experience to make it right and engineer the product and get it out. So

• 36:11Chamath Palihapitiya?

  how do you think about looking up and saying, I could probably do that?

• 36:14Jensen Huang?

  The, the reason why Nvidia runs every single model in the world, we, we're the only, it's incredible. Last year, about a year and a half ago, the only thing we ran was OpenAI.

• 36:24Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah.

• 36:25Jensen Huang?

  And now, look at, amazing models are available. The MetaMuse is available, you got Grok is available, GrokBot's incredible. We now run Gemini, and Anthropic is, is scaling up on our platform as well. Since a year and a half ago, you got all these frontier AI models that are now open, that are available. So the number of models that are, are growing. There's a whole bunch of companies that I won't mention that are building frontier models as well. And the, the number of AI labs are growing. You know, the, the ineffables, the, the reflections, the, right? The list goes on. Physical intelligence, the list goes on. Okay? And so all of these labs are building on Nvidia. And the reason for that is because

• 37:08Jensen Huang?

  as a company, I'd rather for us to help everybody succeed, instead of taking a slice out. And so we would go up as far as we need to, but as low as possible.

• 37:21Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Huh.

• 37:22Jensen Huang?

  Our strategy is go up as far as we need to and as low as possible. And the reason for that is because if I do that, if I solve, if not for Nvidia creating CuDNN, all of the frameworks wouldn't exist. If not for us creating Megatron, Megatron Core, then all of the large-scale training wouldn't have happened.

• 37:42Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Training wouldn't exist.

• 37:43Jensen Huang?

  So we, we go and we invent all the technology necessary, as far as we need to, and then we let a thousand flowers bloom. And so that posture allows us to be, quite frankly, the only.

• 37:54Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Well, look, let's be honest. I, I agree with you. The pushback would be that it really would be great to have more competition at the hyperscale layer. And I think you've done a great job supporting the NeoClouds. There's some, and by the way, I think you introduced me to NBY, it's superb, great, everything, they're amazing. But we need like 50 of these guys. We need 100 of them. We need 1,000 of them. And it just may take some.

• 38:16Jensen Huang?

  Yeah. You know, Chamath, it's just, I'm surprisingly uncompetitive.

• 38:22Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Really?

• 38:24Jensen Huang?

  Yeah. That's not my thing. You know, my thing is kind of, like, for example, I'd be more than happy with five hyperscalers. However, the reason, I noticed the early customers of all the NeoClouds, all the, what we call NCPs, all the early customers were the hyperscalers.

• 38:42Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Exactly.

• 38:43Jensen Huang?

  And the reason for that is because the hyperscalers plan once a year, but the market dynamics is so volatile right now.

• 38:50Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 38:51Jensen Huang?

  That they're always almost wrong. And so with all these regional clouds, who are agile, they can move fast, they know their state, or they know their country, they know their region, they're securing land, power, and shell in a way that's hard for somebody who sits in Seattle or sits in Palo Alto to be able to see the planet.

• 39:10Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 39:11Jensen Huang?

  And so we now have basically a large-scale distributed network of companies that are building, securing land power shell for us. And, and now countries realize it's strategic.

• 39:22Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah.

• 39:23Jensen Huang?

  So many countries are saying, I'm gonna take my power and only give it to my own companies.

• 39:27Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Right.

• 39:28Jensen Huang?

  Well, Nvidia is in that country as well, and we could help the NeoClouds in that country grow. And, and so whether it's, whether it's Fermus in Australia, we just did a whole bunch of stuff in Australia, brought on two more gigabytes, Southeast Asia, of course, IOH and others, bring on a few gigabytes. And so we're building, gigawatts. So we're building, you know, we're scaling up, you know.

• 39:51Chamath Palihapitiya?

  It's pretty clear, though, I just wanna get this one thing in, it's pretty clear that you're going pretty high up and getting very focused on open source. Obviously, you have your Nematrons doing exceptionally well, I use them often, Hugging Face, Poolside, and Laguna, very, very solid product that you're now aqua hiring, hiring, whatever it is. And then you have your open source stack for self-driving, also very disruptive.

• 40:15Jensen Huang?

  So we are the frontier model in five domains.

• 40:18Chamath Palihapitiya?

  Yeah. And so you don't seem to build products to get the silver medal. You seem to go for the gold. So are you going for the gold, and will you have the best, hands down, open source model? And then?

• 40:33Jason Calacanis?

  Part B to that is, can open source catch up to frontier models? And are you the person to do it?

• 40:39Jensen Huang?

  So the logic, the logic, Jason, is that, that we will build it because, one, we can, we have the skills to do it, and because our customers need us to do it.

• 40:50Jason Calacanis?

  Right.

• 40:51Jensen Huang?

  So, for example, Alpamayo is the world's first thinking self-driving car. And by thinking, by reasoning, you don't need as much data as, you know, you don't have to train on a few billion hours of road data, because you could reason about it. Break down the problem into, oh, I've seen this before, it's not exactly the same, but it's largely the same as that. Okay? And so, so Alpamayo, why is it necessary? Well, there's a whole bunch of car companies. Every car in the world is going to be autonomous. But beyond that, every ag tech, every truck, every van, and most of them aren't big enough in scale to be able to build that whole stack. So I'll build an extraordinary stack for them. They do last mile adapting for their application.

• 41:34Jensen Huang?

  Now, everything that moves in the future could be autonomous. If not for us building some of the, some of the biology models, the world wouldn't have it. The ESM2 protein found language model, we created that. ESM Fold, OpenFold, AlphaFold2, all this stuff with Ku Equivariant, all of that stuff, technology, wouldn't have existed if we didn't build it. One of my favorites, Protina Complexa, is, you know, synthesizing next generation proteins, and it's binding. It's groundbreaking stuff. We built that. And so, we'll build that because Lilly needs it, and, and, you know, Merck needs it, and others need it, and they don't have the capability to do it, or they, they're not yet there. And so, we can make a real contribution. So I do everything out of need.

• 42:19Jensen Huang?

  I'm not trying to disrupt, I mean, we don't wake up in the morning, try to disrupt anybody.

• 42:23Jason Calacanis?

  Right.

• 42:24Jensen Huang?

  We just wake up in the morning, try to help everybody.

• 42:25David Friedberg?

  Jensen, what about, what about competitive threats that might be emerging to your core business? Can you just comment?

• 42:32Jensen Huang?

  We're just so nice.

• 42:33David Friedberg?

  Yes. Well, I know this is, well, I actually want, I want to just get your, let's just call it a take. What's your take on terra fab, 100 million square foot facility Elon's announced?

• 42:42Jensen Huang?

  If anybody could do it, he can. And the two of us were on a flight together to a country, and...

• 42:50Jason Calacanis?

  With a person who sometimes calls you on the phone?

• 42:55Jensen Huang?

  It was, it was a nice plane. And, and, and we had like, you know, and Elon likes to talk about these things, and, and so, we spent a lot of time talking about it.

• 43:07David Sacks?

  Is that even competitive? Because, I mean, you could, you design chips, you don't fab them. Could your chips be fab there, or is it?

• 43:15Jensen Huang?

  Well, we know, we, we know a lot about process technology, because we're pushing the limits of everything.

• 43:20David Friedberg?

  Right.

• 43:21Jensen Huang?

  And, you know, because we scale at such large scale, we have incredible memory technology inside the company, we're the world's best service company, you know, we got lots of amazing technology.

• 43:30David Friedberg?

  So your take is, you've talked a lot about it?

• 43:31Jensen Huang?

  So we could just, yeah, we could talk about it. And, and you can't discourage Elon from doing it, which is one of his incredible, that's his superpower. And once he decides to go do something, it's hard to stop him. And so, I...

• 43:43David Friedberg?

  And can you give us your take on where China is with advanced lithography systems? Native grown?

• 43:48Jensen Huang?

  They're gonna get there by 2030.

• 43:50David Friedberg?

  By 2030?

• 43:51Jensen Huang?

  Yeah. And 2030 is just around the corner.

• 43:53Jason Calacanis?

  Yeah. Also, that's 10% chance we'll all be dead at that time, so...

• 43:58David Friedberg?

  And does, and for China, does that mean the switch is flipped, and then that's all gonna go into mainland fabs almost immediately?

• 44:05Jensen Huang?

  You know, the, the way to think about China is, they're really good at high-volume production. And this is just a matter of time.

• 44:15David Friedberg?

  Yeah.

• 44:16Jensen Huang?

  And I, you know, I, I think in, I, I think in decades as well, you know, I've been around a long time, and, you know, for Nvidia, I've got to think about what happens next decade, decade after that. So, two or three years is just a click. It's nothing. And so, as far as they're concerned, they're already there.

• 44:33David Friedberg?

  They're already there.

• 44:34Jensen Huang?

  Yeah.

• 44:35Jason Calacanis?

  Jensen, Elon, and Gwen?

• 44:36Jensen Huang?

  We've got to run. America, we got to run.

• 44:40Jason Calacanis?

  Yeah. Speed run.

• 44:42Jensen Huang?

  We got...

• 44:43Jason Calacanis?

  Speed run.

• 44:44Jensen Huang?

  Slowing down is definitely the wrong strategy.

• 44:45Jason Calacanis?

  Well, I mean, it, it feels apparent, I think, to most of us in the industry, that we're kind of in the AGI moment, and it's a definition, obviously, just as smart as any other human.

• 44:56Jensen Huang?

  I think we're already there.

• 44:57Jason Calacanis?

  We're there, right?

• 44:58Jensen Huang?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 44:59Jason Calacanis?

  And so, then, superintelligence is the next waypoint, based on what you see, based on your customer base, based on your history here.

• 45:04Jensen Huang?

  And Jason, I think we're there too.

• 45:05Jason Calacanis?

  You think we're at superintelligence?

• 45:06Jensen Huang?

  Yeah, yeah. When you, when you, when you take a narrow segment, a narrow segment, I mean, my, my self-driving car, I don't want you to make me an omelet, I just want you to drive the car.

• 45:17Jason Calacanis?

  Right.

• 45:18Jensen Huang?

  That is super intelligent.

• 45:19David Friedberg?

  And it's better, it's better than a human.

• 45:20Jensen Huang?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 45:21David Friedberg?

  Like, one tenth the, the accident rate.

• 45:23Jensen Huang?

  Exactly.

• 45:24David Friedberg?

  Yeah.

• 45:25Jensen Huang?

  Uh, synthesizing proteins, you know, uh, doing virtual screening of proteins. We're already there.

• 45:30David Friedberg?

  Yeah.

• 45:31Jensen Huang?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 45:32David Friedberg?

  Are you having fun being on the frontier of humanity?

• 45:34Jensen Huang?

  I like it.

• 45:37Jason Calacanis?

  Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen.

• 45:41Jensen Huang?

  I like it. I like it. And guys, guys, it's, it's, it's great there. The future is great, and we want to get there. Listen...

• 45:51Jason Calacanis?

  Ride the wake.

• 45:52Jensen Huang?

  A lot of us don't have to work, but I got to tell you, it's too good not to be.

• 45:56Jason Calacanis?

  So fun.

• 45:57Jensen Huang?

  Right? And so, so I want every, we, I want to be there, I want all of you guys there with me. We're all gonna be there. We're gonna be enormously successful together as a humanity. And, and in the meantime, we got to encourage them, urge them on, they're doing really, really important work, as you guys know, and I want them to succeed. I also would love for us to tone down the, the, the drama, and...

• 46:22Jason Calacanis?

  We're gonna make it.

• 46:23Jensen Huang?

  And most importantly, we need all of America to come with us. That's how we make it.

• 46:27Jason Calacanis?

  Ladies and gentlemen, Jensen Huang. Thanks, Ken. Appreciate you.

• 46:31Jensen Huang?

  Thank you.

• 46:32Jason Calacanis?

  Thank you. That was great.

• 46:34David Sacks?

  That was awesome.

• 46:35Jensen Huang?

  All your party.

• 46:36David Sacks?

  That was awesome. That was great.

• 46:38Jensen Huang?

  Thanks, guys.

• 46:39Jason Calacanis?

  That was great, huh? That was a great time. Yeah.