AI is a widely used and highly contentious tool in every field from gaming to art to technology. As the value in Nvidia stock has risen in recent months, companies such as OpenAI and Meta, plus the U.S. government continue investing into artificial intelligence. Experts fear that while AI is lucrative now, the bubble will eventually burst. However, CEO of IBM Arvind Krishna believes that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will pull the company through the potential AI burst.
Krishna on The Verge
During an interview with The Verge, Krishna responded to claims that Nvidia could be discouraged from releasing new products due to their investments in AI. He said, “I think that when you have an incredibly valuable company that’s making its profit stream from a few products, there’s always an inherent or organic disincentive to try to modify that. That said, I would never bet against Jensen‘s ability to disrupt himself and go towards the next plateau, if there is one.”
Jensen Huang on The Joe Rogan Experience
During an interview with Joe Rogan, Rogan asked Huang about Nvidia’s AI growth and the company’s capabilities. Huang began his response with an anecdote about Nvidia’s beginnings. He said, “We were trying to create this new computing approach. The question is, what’s the killer app? We wanted to create a new type of computing architecture, a new type of computer that can solve problems that normal computers can’t solve.”
According to PCGamer’s Nick Evanson, Nvidia began making apps that rendered 3D graphics for Sega’s arcade units, such as Virtua Fighter. During a demonstration in December 1994, Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem flew to Tokyo to propose a chip-development deal to managers at Sega.
Huang said to Rogan, “$5 million was a mountain of money to Sega at the time, and so I told him [Sega’s CEO] that if you invested that $5 million in us, it is most likely to be lost, but if you didn’t invest that money, we’d be out of business, and we would have no chance. So what he decided was, Jensen was a young man he liked, that’s it.”
Nvidia’s NV1 became the first-ever 3D acceleration processor. However, when they made the NV2, Sega told the company that they would not use the NV2 with the Sega Dreamcast. Sega went on to use the PowerVR from the U.K.-based company VideoLogic (now known as Imagination Technologies).
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