NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on AI Chip Design, Scaling Data Centers, and his 10-Year Bets

In this week’s episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, for the second time to reflect on the company’s extraordinary growth over the past year. Jensen discusses AI’s takeover of datacenters and NVIDIA’s rapid development of x.AI’s supercluster. The conversation also covers Nvidia’s decade-long infrastructure bets, software longevity, and innovations like NVLink. Jensen shares his views on the future of embodied AI, digital employees, and how AI is transforming scientific discovery. Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @Nvidia Show Notes:  00:00 Introduction 1:22 NVIDIA's 10-year bets 2:28 Outpacing Moore’s Law 3:42 Data centers and NVLink 7:16 Infrastructure flexibility for large-scale training and inference  10:40 Building and optimizing data centers  13:30 Maintaining software and architecture compatibility  15:00 X.AI’s supercluster  18:55 Challenges of super scaling data centers 20:39 AI’s role in chip design  22:23 NVIDIA's market cap surge and company evolution  27:03 Embodied AI 28:33 AI employees 31:25 Impact of AI on science and engineering  35:40 Jensen’s personal use of AI tools

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At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com. Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or "Software 3.0" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners. Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.