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Jensen Huang | Does AI Revenue Justify Capex, '27 AI Bottlenecks, Singularity, Open vs Closed & more

Can AI revenues justify the spending? Jensen Huang breaks down the biggest bottlenecks heading into 2027, the path to the singularity, open vs. closed models, and why he’s 99.99% optimistic about the decade ahead. Jensen joins Brad Gerstner and Clark Tang for their third BG2 conversation, recorded days after the Xi State Dinner, the White House Accord on…

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  1. Why Did Jensen Huang's Parents Fly in Overnight?

    at 0:57 · Transcript

    Jensen Huang says five of the six people on the medal stage were born outside the United States. He received the National Medal of Science for NVIDIA. Full answer

  2. Why Will the Cost of Intelligence Keep Falling?

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    Jensen Huang says the last year unlocked knowledge, working memory, and tool use. Full answer

  3. Why Didn't Keynes's 15-hour Week Happen?

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    Jensen Huang says the hope of more free time is wrong. For most people, intelligence unlocks more opportunities, and ambitious people will pursue them. Full answer

  4. Did Jensen Huang Understate Physical Artificial Intelligence?

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    Jensen Huang says he understated the $100 billion figure. The first six months already produced $10 billion in physical artificial intelligence. Full answer

  5. Why Three Computers for Physical Artificial Intelligence?

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    Jensen Huang says building a physical artificial intelligence platform takes three computers and three complete stacks, and he says it takes three robots as… Full answer

  6. How Does Jensen Huang Grow Trust in Artificial Intelligence?

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    Jensen Huang says alignment is a forever problem. Safety that depends on perfect alignment never arrives. The answer is containment. Full answer

  7. How Did Nvidia's Dollars Per Gigawatt More Than Double?

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    Jensen Huang says Nvidia's market share is still increasing even though the company is already large and the share was already very high. Full answer

  8. Why Put Nvidia Computers on Starship?

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    Jensen Huang says NVIDIA's engineers and Elon Musk's team are designing a server that works in space and on Earth. Full answer

  9. Why Do Most AI Startups Use Open Models?

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    Jensen Huang says the frontier labs are only part of NVIDIA's machines. He puts them at about a quarter of the compute, maybe 30 percent. Full answer

  10. Why Does Jensen Huang Expect Four Trillion a Year?

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    Jensen Huang says that as the decade ends, yearly infrastructure build-out will probably land between three and four trillion dollars, closer to four than to… Full answer

  11. Why Can't Nvidia Fill Its Order Book?

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    Jensen Huang says every large cloud, every neocloud, and every big manufacturer had already ordered, and so had the startups. Full answer

  12. Why Did Jensen Huang Call Specialization the Enemy?

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    Jensen Huang says specialization is the enemy of fungibility and the enemy of durability. Full answer

  13. What Yearly Computing Build Would Not Surprise Jensen Huang?

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    Jensen Huang says the world is running about a trillion dollars of information technology buildout each year. Full answer

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