ClaimsJensen Huang

“We invested billions into the unknown.”

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, giving speech 14 June 2024 Jensen Huang's Speech At Caltech 2024 Commencement (Transcript) (Singju Post) archived copy

Factual Science and research methods

NVIDIA invested billions of dollars, with thousands of engineers working for a decade, on deep learning without knowing how far it would scale.

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Reasoning

NVIDIA's internal R&D spending and engineer counts on deep learning specifically are not publicly broken out.

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Jensen Huang, “NVIDIA invested billions of dollars, with thousands of engineers working for a decade, on deep learning without knowing how far it would scale.” (said 14 June 2024). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_9ba19c76615d, method 0.1.0+03d23c0e, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_9ba19c76615d

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