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By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company\\u2019s gaming business into building a highly speculative platform with few clear use cases and no obviously large market opportunity. And then... a miracle happened. A miracle that led not only to Nvidia becoming the 8th largest market cap company in the world, but also nearly every internet and technology innovation that\\u2019s happened in the decade since. Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on Nvidia.

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• Ben Thompson\\u2019s great \\xa0Stratechery interview with Jensen\\n
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• Linus Tech Tips tests an Nvidia A100
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Carve Outs:

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• The Expanse short story collection, \\xa0Memory\'s Legion\\n
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• \\xa0Sony RX100 point-and-shoot camera
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