Exclusive | A $21 Billion ‘Kids in Chips’ Startup Is Scooping Up Nvidia Talent
What's happening
A reported $21 billion startup focused on AI chips for kids is aggressively hiring ex-Nvidia engineers and talent, signaling a major talent shift from Nvidia to new entrants. At the same time, multiple reports describe Nvidia moving from a pure-chip supplier toward financing AI infrastructure, including reduced guarantees for OpenAI financing, a $1.5 billion investment in SoftBank's data center developer to ensure its chips power an OpenAI data center, and Wall Street plans to turn Nvidia-backed AI chips into a large financing asset (figures cited as $500 billion). These moves show Nvidia leaning on capital and financial structures to keep the AI build-out supplied with its GPUs while new startups are scooping up Nvidia-trained talent.
Why it's trending
Because Nvidia is reshaping its role from chip maker to financier and ecosystem enabler, creating hiring and startup opportunities that are drawing Nvidia talent now.
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If Nvidia wants to be a bank, don't be surprised when its engineers leave to build the products banks can't design: a $21B 'kids in chips' startup is already hiring them away.
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- Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute
April - 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are all working with Nvidia to put together $500 billion in financing to turn compute […]
The Verge AIAug 19 - Are inference chips replacing GPUs? Investors seem to think so... [D]
Read a TechCrunch article recently talking about a $400M loan General Compute received using specialized SambaNova inference chips as collaterals instead of GPUs. This surprised me because I thought things like this only happened with GPUs. There seems to be a shift from training-heavy infrastructure to inference-first workloads. This financing announcement suggests a growing market trend toward i
r/MachineLearningAug 17 - Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guaranteeHackerNewsAug 16
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