All Hail the GPU King

Everybody loves NVIDIA. “It is the only company in the world that appears to be universally loved. After all, we have to love the company without which this AI revolution wouldn’t be possible,” said Abacus.AI chief Bindu Reddy, adding that it is innovating on a hard problem at rocket speeds.??

There is almost no tech company that has not partnered with NVIDIA, except AMD, Cerebras, and Intel, obviously.

“It’s amazing to see all the tech-giant CEOs kiss Jensen Huang’s ring at NVIDIA GTC,” quipped Pedro Domingos, a professor of computer science at UW and the author of ‘The Master Algorithm’.?

Huang’s two-hour keynote not only disproved Moore’s Law, but also showcased the various domains NVIDIA impacts, including healthcare and humanoid robotics. The underlying theme behind all the announcements was that every tech company needs NVIDIA.

The company’s strategic partnership with major big-tech firms and cloud providers was further fortified at the conference. The display of the exhaustive list of NVIDIA partners could hardly fit on the screen, and you could probably play Bingo to identify every known player!??

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It’s Suley-man, Not Alt-man

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella has found a new best friend in Mustafa Suleyman. It ain’t Sam Altman anymore. A new drama is unfolding in the heart of Silicon Valley as Inflection AI co-founder joins the big tech to run their AI show internally, leaving the startup stranded. Read more here.?

Software Engineering Teams are Shrinking?

It is fascinating that SpaceX rockets are landed back on Earth so they can be reused. Equally fascinating is the fact that the code to bring the rockets back was written by a single software engineer – others were only a little involved. The reason is simple: “Get more people involved and it gets confusing,” said Hans Koenigsmann, the fourth employee at SpaceX.

With generative AI in the picture, the role of a software engineer is changing drastically, and the size of a software engineering team is shrinking for good.?

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Where is Ilya?

Ever since Sam Altman’s dramatic exit and return as a board member, we’ve all been wondering where Ilya Sutskever is and what the chief scientist at OpenAI has been up to? Read to find out.