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		darth_avocado 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech companies are firing everyone to "fund AI", s... Nvidia can do that because what they sell has an insane markup. Nvidia is getting a billion dollars in equity for input spending of a hundred million. Nvidia is creating demand for it’s products and in turn getting ownership in companies for cheap. It’s like being a VC but your investments are chips and the chips also count as revenue for you.

Jensson 12 days ago [–]

But if there is a bubble Nvidia is making it worse this way and will get hit hard itself.

jonway 11 days ago | [–]

the bubble would hit Nvidia just about as hard regardless since their valuation and revenue is already bound to their monopoly on the compute.

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