He's been compared to Gates and Jobs as vital to both Nvidia and AI globally. But consider what he hasn't done.
- he didn't invent GPU
- he didn't invent parallel processing hardware
- he didn't invent, design, or code CUDA
- he didn't discover that GPU can be used for general arithmetic
- he didn't invent, design, or code the first math co-processor, the 80287 the granddaddy of the microprocessor GPU
- he didn't invent, design, or code VLSI, et seq which make the microprocessor GPU possible
As to the Gates/Jobs comparison... well yet more bullshit. Gates got rich and famous because IBM was stupid; they bought (non-exclusively) Quick and Dirty Operating System from Microsoft after it scrounged same for Seattle Computer. And, of course, Lotus wrote 1-2-3 solely in x86 assembler, and every Suit in the world wanted to run 1-2-3 (only a handful ever ran Microsoft's multiplan, ha!) Gates knew how to code, bigly. Jobs was always more interested at user experience, than the nuts and bolts of the Apple machines. That guy was Wozniak. The two eventually fell out.
In sum then, Huang is the world's greatest schnorrer, riding on the capability of CUDA. Which seems less powerful today than a few days ago, having nothing to do with the downfall of Huang: AI can now run on AMD GPU. Whether that is a stake through the heart of Nvidia is way, way too soon to tell.
Anthropic is pitching IPO investors on a number that should worry anyone who owns NVIDIA (NVDA): three days.No one will miss Huang.
That's how long Anthropic says its Mythos model took to get Claude running on chips from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). "It got Claude running on AMD in just three days with basically no human intervention. Claude ported or wrote almost 100% of the kernels," Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown said in the company's roadshow video. The company's old approach took six to 12 months.
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