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&gt; I think the only way to start an AI chip company is to start with the software. The computing in ML is not general purpose computing. 95% of models in use today (including LLMs and image generation) have all their compute and memory accesses statically computable.<p>Agree with this insight. One thing Nvidia got right was a focus on software. They introduced CUDA [1] back in 2007 when the full set of use cases for it didn&#x27;t seem very obvious. Then their GPUs had Tensor cores, and more complementary software like TensorRT to take full advantage of them post deep learning boom.<p>Right as Nvidia reported insane earnings beat too [2]. Would love more players in this space for sure.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CUDA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CUDA</a>
[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q1-2024.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-...</a>