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Re: Nvidia Halos

#41

This is a weird way for Nvidia to announce they're going out of business.

They already seem to have fired all humans in the marketing team.

They have their own LLM, might as well use it and then screw their biggest customers that are in the business of LLM-aaS

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#43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Controversially, Nvidia employs more than one person and so is in fact capable of producing more than one thing at a time.

Thanks for your insight, though I was referring to the sidelining of their GPU consumer business and transformation into what it is now.

You can still buy and use Nvidia GPUs to play games. That was the case during the crypto boom, the AI boom, and now the RAM shortage too.

It's also hard to blame Nvidia for the pivot, from where I'm standing. Their proprietary middleware like PhysX, DLSS and RTX has been memed to death by PC gamers, while high-margin edge and datacenter customers are chomping at the bit for CUDA compute. Nvidia's raster stack is more-or-less complete, the things that PC gamers are asking from them are not realistic or fairly priced at this moment in time.

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#44
post #39

Is anyone else amused that the car shown on the landing page looks a lot like a Tesla Model Y, which famously does _not_ use any Nvidia chips (Tesla onboard computers have been AMD based for some time now)?

No, that's a Mercedez EQE. MB is the launch partner for nVidia's alpamayo-based autonomous efforts.

Re: Nvidia Halos

#47
post #4

I noticed too much use of the word "safety", like the LLM was told to emphasise it, so I did a little test: randomly scroll and move the mouse without looking, is there "safety" in there? I did it for 4 times and every time I found it. Ctrl+F -> 136 results.

safetymaxxing

Re: Nvidia Halos

#48
Someone please give Nemotron a thesaurus. This reminds me of the early days of SEO, where you try to hit 1% keyword density.

The new game is finding a single sentence with the most instances of "safe" or "safety". My current high score is 4..

Re: Nvidia Halos

#49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your insight, though I was referring to the sidelining of their GPU consumer business and transformation into what it is now.

You can still buy and use Nvidia GPUs to play games. That was the case during the crypto boom, the AI boom, and now the RAM shortage too. It's also hard to blame Nvidia for the pivot, from where I'm standing. Their proprietary middleware like PhysX, DLSS and RTX has been memed to death by PC gamers, while high-margin edge and datacenter customers are chomping at the bit for CUDA compute. Nvidia's raster stack is more…

> Nvidia's raster stack is more-or-less complete

That was my point. It's not even a pivot! They're still making consumer cards! They've even product-differentiated enough that the consumer cards are still on the shelves at close-to-MSRP, despite world-historic demand for adjacent parts of the lineup.

Being _mad_ at Nvidia in this setting is weirdly possessive - a business that was 90% gaming is now 10x larger and 9% gaming[1]. You haven't lost ground!

[1]: numbers made up but you get the point

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