Samo Burja reveals how Nvidia went from making John Carmack happy to building the GPU hardware that made the 2022 AI boom possible: "It didn’t even start as a video game graphics company. The core idea was that there would be a new future in compute, and it was parallel processing. Since it was the 1990s, making John Carmack very happy was a way to monetize building a future of compute." "When we talk about neo clouds, almost all of those are formerly crypto companies that had bought Nvidia GPUs." "Jensen was right there providing the first custom designed GPU rack that was for AI. This is all pre-2022. 2022 would not have happened were it not for the hardware." "Maybe he made multiple bets, but it was overdetermined one of those bets would work, and that’s the magic of a live player." @SamoBurja @bismarckanlys