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by scottlamb 193 days ago
Nvidia is selling shovels, widely believed to be a better business than panning for gold. So...

* You can't generalize from Nvidia to companies spending all the money on hardware, electricity, and labor without making a profit.

* It's also worth asking if Nvidia will keep having those earnings if all the AI companies crash. Unsure about this. At least there's a bunch of pent-up demand from people wanting GPUs for other reasons.

* Also, there's the $100B they invested in OpenAI...