Make benchmarks true forms of data. Include revisions, provenance.
TPU and Wide EP
Fault tolerant EP in llmd
Back to costs. How much does it cost to generate 1m tokens in each of these distributed cases. What’s the cost for different pd settings.
Jensen keynote
Tldr
- AI factory based on tokens versus Data Centers based on files. Companies will be token producers and
- Openclaw framed as the gpt3 moment for agents. NemoClaw is Enterprise grade attached to a policy engine
- Frontier models for each industry. Presented as top of the Nemotron
- On robots, they led with robotaxis and a video that would have been novel 3 years ago
Olaf robot was awkward, timing off.
Showmanship on full display, total Super Bowl vibes.
raw notes
Bring customers to cloud
Broke out AI platform in context of cloud providers
Vertically integrated, horizontally open.
computing company. horizontal
Lead with Google Cloud
Accelerated Computing.
Application Acceleration
The Inference Inflection Arrives
Nvidia is the lowest cost, highest confidence for inference
1/3 of AI compute: anthropic, mls, multiple oss
Nvidia is drawing a clear line at the AI platform
Conflicting messages
- vertically integrated, horizontally open
Inference is the ultimate hard
Dgxcloud to create kernels
2 charts: cost and performance
50x higher perf/watt
35x lower cost
atel - accused Jensen of sandbagging. He’s not wrong. Round of applause.
If you have the wrong architecture, even if it’s free, it’s not cheap enough.
Untouchable token cost due to increased codesign.
Fireworks, Together. 100x
Throughput and token speed for your AI factory
Tokens are a commodity.
Blackwell introduced a whole new tier
Spent time mapping tokens to revenues, teaching people how to monetize GPU
Highlighted the price perf
Grok benefits
Dynamo for PD to help Rubin and Grok work together. Prefill is the easy part.
Dynamo as the OS for AI factory
Called out challenges with Blackwell and NVL72. Going much smoother with Vera Rubin.
Blue field. Are we behind?
Every single SaaS company is going to become a gas company.
Wants to give employees a token budget.
Agents perceive reason and act