Key insights

• 🎓 Introduction and gratitude towards graduates and their families
• 💼 Encouragement to consider working at NVIDIA
• 🔬 Shared passion for science and engineering
• 🕹️ Longevity as a tech CEO, History and lessons from NVIDIA's journey
• 🤝 Importance of intellectual honesty and humility
• 🚀 Rapid advancement of AI as the most consequential technology
• 💻 Transformative impact of computers on every industry
• 🧠 Encouraging graduates to engage with AI and understand the evolving computer industry
• 💾 IT industry's evolution and the rise of software as a valuable commodity
• 📈 Challenges in CPU performance due to scaling limits and growing computing demand
• ⚡ NVIDIA's accelerated computing as a solution for energy and cost savings
• 🔋 Acceleration of diverse application domains through GPU offloading
• 🧠 The emergence and impact of deep learning on the AI revolution
• 🔍 Challenges and decision-making process in exploring deep learning's scalability
• 💻 NVIDIA reinvented every computing layer, including the GPU itself, interconnects, systems, networking, and software
• 💰 Invested billions and worked on deep learning and scaling deep learning, leading to the creation of AI supercomputers
• 🔄 Transformed from a graphics company to an AI company and fundamentally changed the way of computing
• 🏭 Created a new industry focused on producing intelligence tokens and AI factories
• 🤖 Next wave of AI is robotics, where AI also integrates a physical world model
• 🖥️ Invented GPU and programmable shading in 2000
• 🔌 Integrated GPUs with motherboard chips and launched integrated graphics chip for AMD CPUs
• 💻 Negotiated license with Intel and worked with Apple on the first MacBook Air
• 📱 Licensed ARM to build a low-power SoC and developed the world's first SoC for mobile devices
• 🤖 Developed robotics computer processing algorithm called deep learning over 10 years ago
• 📉 Faced setbacks and market exits but maintained resilience and agility
• 🏋️ The company's culture of resilience and agility led to the development of AI technologies despite challenges
• 🌱 Dedication and prioritization are important for achieving success
• 💡 Importance of believing in something unconventional and making it happen
• ⏱️ Enduring setbacks and seeing them as opportunities
• 🛠️ Finding a craft to dedicate a lifetime to
• ⏳ Prioritizing life to focus on important things

Q&A

• What story does the CEO share and what are the key takeaways?

  The CEO shares a story about a dedicated gardener to teach the importance of dedication, prioritization, believing in something unconventional, enduring setbacks, and finding a craft to dedicate a lifetime to. The key takeaways include the significance of dedication, endurance, and prioritizing life to focus on important things.

• How has NVIDIA evolved as a company?

  NVIDIA has reinvented every computing layer, focused on deep learning and AI advancement, transformed into an AI company, and created a new industry based on intelligence tokens and AI factories. It has also exhibited agility and resilience in pivoting through different markets and leveraging its culture to develop AI technologies despite challenges.

• What technological challenges and solutions are discussed in the speech?

  The speech covers the evolution of the IT industry and the growing demand for computing, which has led to a gap between demand and capabilities. NVIDIA's accelerated computing is presented as a sustainable path forward, addressing challenges in CPU performance and energy consumption, and accelerating diverse application domains through GPU offloading.

• How does the CEO encourage the graduates?

  The CEO encourages the graduates to consider working at NVIDIA by highlighting the company's focus on deep learning and AI advancement, its transformation into an AI company, and the creation of a new industry based on intelligence tokens and AI factories.

• What does the CEO talk about in the commencement speech?

  The CEO discusses the significance of intellectual honesty, humility, the rapid advancement of AI, and the transformative impact of computers on various industries. He also emphasizes the need for graduates to engage with AI and understand the evolving landscape of the computer industry.

• 00:08 A CEO gives a commencement speech to Caltech graduates, shares experiences and encourages them to consider working at NVIDIA.
• 05:42 The speaker discusses the importance of intellectual honesty and humility, the rapid advancement of AI, and the transformative impact of computers on every industry. He emphasizes the need for graduates to engage with AI and understand the evolving landscape of the computer industry.
• 10:13 The IT industry has evolved, and the demand for computing is growing exponentially, causing a gap between demand and capabilities. NVIDIA's accelerated computing provides a sustainable path forward, leading to the emergence of deep learning and the AI revolution.
• 15:26 NVIDIA has reinvented every computing layer, focused on deep learning and AI advancement, transformed into an AI company, and created a new industry based on intelligence tokens and AI factories.
• 21:03 A journey of persistence and pivoting through different markets, from computer graphics to robotics, facing setbacks but maintaining resilience and creating opportunities. The company's agility and culture of resilience have led to the development of AI technologies and a positive outlook despite challenges.
• 26:29 A story about a dedicated gardener teaches the importance of dedication and prioritization. The speaker urges the class of 2024 to believe in something unconventional, endure setbacks, and find a craft to dedicate their lifetime to.