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NemoClaw Is Built on 50-Year-Old Engineering. That's Exactly the Point.
There is a battle playing out at the center of the agent world right now. On one side: Anthropic and OpenAI, two companies that spent most of 2025 learning a bitter lesson. Shipping fast does not mean organizations actually adopt. On the other side: Nvidia, which just launched NemoClaw. Embedded inside that launch is a philosophy that is quietly more interesting than the product itself. NemoClaw is built on engineering principles that are fifty years old. And that is not a cr

Rich Washburn
Mar 245 min read
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NVIDIA's $4 Billion Photonics Move Feels Bigger When You've Seen the Problem Up Close
A few years ago, I found myself sitting in a photonics lab, very aware that I was the least qualified person in the room. I had been brought in by a company I was doing some AI work with — flew me out to Dallas, met the team, did some training, got a feel for what they were building. Smart people. Real engineers. The kind of environment where you realize pretty quickly where your lane ends. On a follow-up trip, there was an issue they were working through. I didn't fully unde

Rich Washburn
Mar 204 min read
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A Tale of Two Signals
This week gave us a tale of two signals. On one side, NVIDIA kicked the doors off the hinges. On the other, Apple tightened the locks. That's the story. And if you're paying attention, it tells you exactly where this is headed. Because these are not random events. They are not isolated product moves. They are two completely different reactions to the same underlying shift. NVIDIA is behaving like a company that understands the future gets won by accelerating capability. Apple

Rich Washburn
Mar 204 min read
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That Escalated Quickly: NVIDIA Just Dropped a Nuke on the AI Market
You know that moment in a movie where someone casually walks into a room, sets something down on the table, and everyone just stares? That's what NVIDIA did this week. They released Nemotron 3 Super — a free, open-weight AI model with 120 billion parameters that only activates 12 billion at a time. And they didn't just drop the weights. They dropped the entire training dataset. 10 trillion tokens. The recipes. Everything. For free. Let that sit for a second. What We're Actual

Rich Washburn
Mar 193 min read
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AI Market Signal: NVIDIA + Groq — The Quiet Repricing of Compute
NVIDIA’s $20B strategic integration of Groq marks a structural inflection point in the AI economy. It’s not an acquisition in the conventional sense — it’s a strategic repositioning around the emerging bottleneck in AI economics: inference latency. This move signals a new equilibrium in compute strategy — where capital, physics, and infrastructure converge. It confirms that the next frontier of value in AI will not be determined by training capacity, but by real-time inferenc

Rich Washburn
Dec 28, 20253 min read
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Groq, NVIDIA, and the Geometry of Courage: How Creative M&A and Constraint Built the Future of AI
Let’s start where everyone’s talking right now — the number. $20 billion. That’s the reported value of NVIDIA’s “not-quite-an-acquisition” of Groq — the little AI hardware company that built a chip so unorthodox, the industry laughed when they unveiled it in 2023. Now? NVIDIA’s folding their architecture, their engineers, and their design DNA into the future of its own inference stack. Except here’s the twist — NVIDIA didn’t buy Groq outright. They structured it as a non-excl

Rich Washburn
Dec 27, 20254 min read
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The Beginning of the End of the Cloud Empire
Let’s be clear: the cloud isn’t dying. But the age of unquestioned cloud supremacy  — that decade-long reign where every ounce of intelligence had to pass through someone else’s API — that’s beginning to crack. We’re entering the post-imperial  phase of compute. The Great Inversion For twenty years, the cloud has been the empire of cognition: centralized, industrial, and rented by the teraflop. It made sense. The economics of scale were brutal. Training frontier models requir

Rich Washburn
Oct 20, 20252 min read
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It’s On: The AI Arms Race Just Went Nuclear (Literally)
Take a breath. Now take another, deeper one. Because what just dropped in the last 72 hours isn’t just “big tech news” — it’s a...

Rich Washburn
Sep 23, 20254 min read
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Possibility Machines: How Nvidia Built the Future Without Knowing What It Was For
Most companies chase a vision. Nvidia built tools —and let the future find them. This is the story of how a scrappy graphics card startup...

Rich Washburn
Apr 8, 20254 min read
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Tokenization & AI Factories: Welcome to the Age of Intelligence Assembly Lines
Picture this: You walk into a high-tech factory—not the greasy, clanging type from old documentaries, but a temple of glass, LEDs, and...

Rich Washburn
Apr 3, 20255 min read
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NVIDIA’s Rubin Ultra & Feynman Architectures: A Defining Moment for the Future of AI Infrastructure
Let’s set the scene: you're not just building an AI system anymore—you're designing infrastructure for a new kind of intelligence...

Rich Washburn
Apr 3, 20254 min read
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Psst… You Got Some Compute?
Stuck in line while the tech bro crowd is already building the future? Tech titans like OpenAI, Google, Meta—are stockpiling GPUs like...

Rich Washburn
Feb 19, 20251 min read
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DeepSeek’s Janus Pro: The AI Model That’s Making OpenAI and NVIDIA Sweat Even More
Just when you thought the AI world had recovered from the shockwaves of DeepSeek R1 , the Chinese AI upstart has doubled down with Janus...

Rich Washburn
Jan 28, 20254 min read
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Jensen Huang Reveals NVIDIA's 2025 Masterplan
Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA, recently unveiled his vision for the future of artificial intelligence at the AI Summit in...

Rich Washburn
Nov 8, 20244 min read
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NVIDIA's New AI: The Game Changer of the Decade
We've all been there—marveling at the magic of text-to-image AI models that transform a few typed words into breathtaking visuals. Then...

Rich Washburn
Aug 16, 20243 min read
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Supercomputer Obsession: Elon Musk's Grand Vision
Elon Musk has set his sights on a new frontier: supercomputers. His goal is nothing short of monumental—constructing the world's most...

Rich Washburn
Jul 29, 20243 min read
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Elon Musk's Ambitious GPU Farm: The "Gigafactory of Compute”
Elon Musk, the tech mogul behind Tesla and SpaceX, is embarking on a monumental project with his AI startup, xAI. The venture aims to...

Rich Washburn
Jul 12, 20242 min read
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Energy Consumption: The Hidden Costs of AI
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought about remarkable innovations and transformed industries worldwide....

Rich Washburn
Jul 1, 20242 min read
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The AI Bull Market & Nvidia’s Massive Potential
Doug Clinton from Deepwater Asset Management posits that we are only in the third or fourth inning of the AI bull market, suggesting...

Rich Washburn
Jun 30, 20243 min read
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NVIDIA’s Nitron 4 340B: A Game-Changer for Synthetic Data Generation
NVIDIA has once again pushed the boundaries with the release of their latest model, the Nitron 4 340B. This open-source behemoth,...

Rich Washburn
Jun 29, 20242 min read
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