What Next TBD: Tech’s Newest Trillion Dollar Company

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🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Until recently, Nvidia was a company known for graphics cards—a brand name among gamers but not necessarily the general public. But as part of the A.I. boom, Nvidia’s stock has skyrocketed, putting the company in Silicon Valley’s trillion-dollar valuation class with Apple, Meta, and Alphabet—briefly, at least. Guest: Don Clark, freelance reporter specializing in chips and enterprise tech. Host: Emily Peck If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video.
0:33.5	This story begins with the godfather of AI, a man named Jeffrey Hinton.
0:38.7	In Canada, back in 2012, there was a team of AI researchers, led by Hinton, the same guy
0:45.3	currently warning folks that AI will doom civilization.
0:49.0	They were working on the artificial intelligence technology that everyone's talking about now,
0:54.0	and this is key. They were using NVIDIA graphics processing units for their work.
0:59.5	Basically, NVIDIA had invented this way of using its graphics chips for other kinds of computing.
1:08.7	And it had not particularly thought about artificial intelligence.
1:12.3	That's Don Clark. He's been covering the chip industry for decades. But these researchers in Toronto
1:18.1	decided these were a great engine for doing what they want to do. And this kind of snowballed
1:25.2	and really is kind of at the core of the AI revolution we're now experiencing.
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