CEOs of huge tech corporations typically get collectively for promotional duties and PR occasions. Such conferences normally contain speaking a couple of new challenge they’re engaged on or an funding of some sort price billions of {dollars}. So, when Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia received collectively for a current “jersey-swap” on Instagram, you would not anticipate extra to return of it. Not so for Zuckerberg who, in response to a touch upon the photograph, described Huang as being like Taylor Swift. A tech model, after all.
Zuckerberg’s barely odd however flattering description was reported by Fortune, which explains that Meta’s CEO was replying to a remark that stated ‘I do not know who that’s however I am glad you are having enjoyable.’
The opposite particular person in query was, after all, Jen-Hsun Huang—the co-founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia. It is completely comprehensible that not everybody will recognise his face, even when they know concerning the firm, be it by way of proudly owning a GeForce graphics card or simply studying about AI information on the net. Even my accomplice, who’s very tech savvy, requested me who he was.
So if you needed to describe who he was or why he is well-known or essential, what brief one-liner would you go along with? Over to Mark Zuckerberg: ‘He’s like Taylor Swift, however for tech.’ I can think about that some individuals will simply be cringing over such a remark, however I believe Zuckerberg had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he wrote that.
To be honest to Meta’s CEO, it isn’t a completely dangerous comparability. Each are globally recognised (although I believe way more individuals would be capable to establish Taylor Swift) and are very profitable of their respective fields. They began from scratch and labored arduous through the years to construct their fortunes.
Although I’ve tried to image Huang as a worldwide music star—replete with a spangly outfit and energetic dance troupe, singing ‘Shake it off’ to a crowd of followers waving their beloved graphics playing cards within the air. However yeah, it isn’t one thing that actually works.
Anyway, so why precisely are Zuckerberg and Huang so chummy in the meanwhile? Nicely, it is all to do with Meta’s critical analysis and funding in AI and to energy all of that, it is being shopping for Nvidia’s GPUs by the bucketload. Final yr, Meta had purchased 150,000 H100 GPUs and is on observe to double that quantity by the tip of the yr. We’re speaking billions of {dollars} price of chips right here.
Nvidia’s H100 has simply been surpassed by the not too long ago launched Blackwell B200, however will probably be some time earlier than Meta will be capable to get its fingers on a number of hundred thousand of these, as a number of corporations have already been placing in huge pre-orders of the supersized graphics chip. I ponder if Zuckerberg hoped to get a wee low cost with the jacket swap photograph op and cute description? Possibly if all of us do it, GeForce graphics playing cards will come down in worth. We are able to all dream, sure?
