GTC attendee blasts Jensen Huang over circular financing and weak physical AI division
RockyCreamNHotSauce · reddit · 2026-11-13
A developer who attended multiple physical AI conferences and GTC criticizes NVIDIA: Jensen Huang's star-power cult and profit-maxxing circular financing — selling chips to companies that can't afford them — builds a bubble where buyers' demand rests on "hopes and dreams."
He also claims NVIDIA's physical AI division lacks PhD-level AI scientists, singles out VP Jim Fan, and argues their sim-to-real approach fails on tiny simulation errors compounding into real-world control failures — robots that "can't pick up a water bottle."
Strong opinions, partly subjective, but a substantive industry critique.
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