As big tech and AI startups in the U.S. race to get their hands on NVIDIA's long-awaited

blackwell chips, the Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank will be the first to receive them

and announced yesterday by Jensen Wong and Masayoshi-san. That's what the subject of is today

for today's tech check. Dear DeVos has got that. Hey Dee. Hey, good morning, Carl. So Masasan,

he is never one to be left out of a major tech shift.

So being first to Blackwell, on stage with AI Kingmaker Jensen Huang was a very on-point

way for him to show the world that he hasn't lost his touch.

Also raising the question, why SoftBank and Massa San and not an Open AI or Google who are at the forefront of LLM advancements?

A source tells me it was simple. SoftBank's order was early and it was large.

Here's Jensen Huang himself in Tokyo overnight.

Masa is the only entrepreneur, only entrepreneur, only innovator in the world that has selected the winner

and partnered with the winner in every single generation.

Remember, it was Masa that brought Bill Gates to Japan.

It was Masa that invented or brought Jerry Yang to Japan. It was Masa that invented or brought Jerry Yang to Japan. It was Masa that

made possible for China's cloud industry to happen, Alibaba. It was Masa that brought

Steve Jobs to Japan and the iPhone.

And many of you probably don't know this,

but at one point, Masa was the largest shareholder of Vemvidia.

Yes.

Oh.

It's okay.

We can cry together.

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