Secrets of NVIDIA's Surge, Google Gemini's Image Generation Disaster, Reddit IPO

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) NVIDIA's stock market surge 2) How NVIDIA software is behind its lock on the market 3) Is the economy saved, now? 4) Reddit's IPO 5) Is Reddit a good ad business? 6) Reddit's AI licensing play 7) Sam Altman role as Reddit's third largest shareholder 8) Was Google Gemini's image generation mess up a product of woke culture or bad AI? 9) Was Gemini's image generation an emergent runaway capability 10) Google testing an end to Google News 11) Why Major League Baseball has see-through pants this season. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	In a video shares go bananas and save the stock market.
0:03.4	Reddit's going public.
0:04.7	Look out.
0:05.6	Gemini's image generation goes off the rails and wait.
0:09.5	The Major League Baseball pants are see-through.
0:12.1	All that and more coming up right after this.
0:14.2	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.
0:20.4	Join me every week for captivating stories and research to find more fulfillment in your work and personal life.
0:26.1	Listen to Every Day Better on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:39.3	We're here, as always, with Ron John Roy of Margins for a terrific show for you today.
0:45.3	We have so much to cover. I'm excited. Great to have you here, Ranjan. Welcome to the show.
0:50.2	I wish I owned Nvidia, but I do not. I mean, at the beginning of the year, so this is one of the things I predicted for 2024
0:58.4	that Nvidia's share price would be flat over the course of the year.
1:04.3	I saw a competition coming and thought that it couldn't potentially run up anymore.
1:09.5	One of the worst predictions I've ever made, the company is so far up 65% on the year,
1:19.6	$700 billion in market cap, and it popped 277 billion on Thursday alone, which is the largest single day stock market increase ever,
1:32.3	beating metas from earlier, I think last year, and basically the GDP of many small countries
1:38.2	combined. So what do you think about this in video run? I actually just published a story literally in a minute on big technology,
1:47.3	talking a little bit about what's behind the surge and why I was wrong.
1:50.3	But I want to get your reaction to the response, what it means for
1:52.8	invidia, but also for generative AI.
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