#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

**Lex Fridman** (0:00)
The following is a conversation with Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, one of the most important and influential companies in the history of human civilization. Nvidia is the engine powering the AI revolution, and a lot of its success can be directly attributed to Jensen's sheer force of will and his many brilliant bets and decisions as a leader, engineer, and innovator. And now a quick few second mention of his sponsor. Check them out in the description or at lexfridman.com/sponsors. It is in fact the best way to support this podcast. We got Shopify for selling stuff online, Element for electrolytes, Fin for customer service AI agents, Quo for a phone system like calls, texts, contacts for your business, and Perplexity for curiosity driven knowledge exploration. Choose Wazza my friends. And now on to the full ad reads. I try to make them interesting, but if you skip, please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. To get in touch with me for whatever reason, go to lexfridman.com/contact. All right, let's go. This episode is brought to you by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere with a great looking online store. Now I know it's an incredible platform for selling stuff. It's a mechanism by which you can buy stuff on the internet. But the thing I like to celebrate is the engineering. They just recently tweeted about Simgym, which runs simulated shopping sessions by the hundreds of thousands daily. I personally love the idea that things at scale, especially now with the LLM models, can be simulated. You basically want to be simulating human behavior, human decision making, human choice. In this particular context, of course, is shopping. It's really fascinating. And they described in their blog post how they're leveraging Nvidia stack to accomplish this task. But you should know in general that you can sign up for a $1 per month trial period at shopify.com/lex. That's all lowercase. Go to shopify.com/lex to take your business to the next level today. This episode is also brought to you by Element, my daily zero sugar delicious electrolyte mix. That, as far as I know, has very little to do with the artificial intelligence and GPUs and CPUs and the revolution that we're experiencing in the tech sector. And I think that's beautiful because I got a chance to train a bunch of world class fighters, wrestlers, grapplers recently. I'm going to be traveling to parts of the world that doesn't really have much. And I think in those parts of the world is where the mind can reconnect with the things that are truly important and that are truly timeless. Anyway, in those parts of the world, I often get pretty out there in terms of physical strain and diet and dehydration and so on. So element is one of the crucial things in my bag. Really water and salt, and really nice, delicious, well-balanced salt, meaning sodium, potassium, magnesium, electrolytes. Element is my go-to. Watermelon salt, my favorite flavor. Get a free eight-count sample pack with any purchase. Try it at drinklmnt.com/lex. This episode is also brought to you by Finn, a powerful AI system that focuses on customer service. It's trusted by over 6,000 companies. It has a 65 average resolution rate, and is built to handle complex multi-step queries like returns, exchanges, and disputes. This is such a fascinating problem, because customer problems, the bulk of them fall into very specific set of categories, but there's nuanced details within those categories that make all the difference. And it can be an incredibly frustrating thing for a human being like myself, I swear. I promise. Definitely not a robot. Wouldn't tell you if I was. But it's frustrating for a human to come to the customer service process, and to know that your problem kind of is like this problem. There is all these details that you can provide about the system you're operating on, the specifics of the puzzle you're trying to solve. But there's details that you just know in your gut that this is important, especially if you kind of thought through the problem. I've been through this quite a bit. You want to have some level of personalization that can get to the tricky aspect, the perspective on the problem that really would lead you down the road to a solution. Anyway, love this problem. Really glad Finn is focusing on it. Go to finn.ai.lex to learn more about transforming your customer service and scaling your support team. That's finn.ai.lex.
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