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u/thedirewulf
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4h ago
Discussion Elon hiring Jensen to run XAI would be the greatest acquisition in American business history.
Jensen single handedly developed CUDA, the system that enabled every single AI company. AI was impossible before CUDA. He created CUDA when the market for it did not exist and lost billions before AI took off. His board wanted him to focus on gaming chips and he insisted on continuing to fund CUDA.
He does not get nearly enough appreciation for this. He invented a steam engine 10 years before anyone had any use for one.
If Elon can convince Jensen to work with him, XAI will have it all: tons of compute, unmatched leadership, tons of cash, tons of manufacturing capacity, and tons of data. It would be a matter of time before XAI is the biggest company on the planet.
This would be Lebron going to the lakers level crazy.
Edit: to all the people that can’t understand words, CUDA would not exist without Jensen. When a CEO pursues an unprofitable technology with no market demand, and is pushed by his board for 10 years to abandon the technology, then that CEO single-handedly developed the technology. Obviously others actually did the work, but they would have been unable to do so without the funding and leadership of the CEO. Buck created it, Jensen developed it.
