Why Doesn't Nvidia Just Sell Tokens Itself? Ex-Nvidia Engineer: "Jensen Makes His Friends Billionaires"
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-28
Rohan Paul highlights a take from Neil Movva (co-founder of Sail Research, ex-Nvidia GPU/kernel engineer) on why Nvidia doesn't sell inference tokens directly: "Jensen is really good at making his friends billionaires" — i.e., Nvidia deliberately feeds the ecosystem of cloud providers and neoclouds rather than competing with them.
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