CEOs of massive tech firms usually get collectively for promotional duties and PR occasions. Such conferences normally contain speaking a few new mission they’re engaged on or an funding of some form price billions of {dollars}. So, when Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia bought collectively for a latest “jersey-swap” on Instagram, you would not count on extra to come back of it. Not so for Zuckerberg who, in response to a touch upon the picture, described Huang as being like Taylor Swift. A tech model, in fact.
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 individual in query was, in fact, 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 in regards to the firm, be it by way of proudly owning a GeForce graphics card or simply studying about AI information on the internet. Even my associate, 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 necessary, 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 truthful to Meta’s CEO, it isn’t a completely dangerous comparability. Each are globally recognised (although I believe much more individuals would be capable of determine 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 world 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 intervening time? Effectively, it is all to do with Meta’s severe analysis and funding in AI and to energy all of that, it is being shopping for Nvidia’s GPUs by the bucketload. Final 12 months, Meta had purchased 150,000 H100 GPUs and is on observe to double that quantity by the top of the 12 months. We’re speaking billions of {dollars} price of chips right here.
Nvidia’s H100 has simply been surpassed by the lately launched Blackwell B200, however will probably be some time earlier than Meta will be capable of get its fingers on a number of hundred thousand of these, as a number of firms have already been placing in huge pre-orders of the supersized graphics chip. I’m wondering if Zuckerberg hoped to get a wee low cost with the jacket swap picture op and cute description? Possibly if all of us do it, GeForce graphics playing cards will come down in value. We are able to all dream, sure?