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Zoe Schiffer: Brian, hello. It’s so exciting to find another way to talk to you when I’m not pinging you on Slack every five seconds.
Brian Barrett: This is great, because Slack doesn’t have a voice part.
Zoe Schiffer: It’s not like that.
Brian Barrett: I will say: Very sad that Leah will not be a part of that journey today.
Zoe Schiffer: I know. It’s really sad, but while Leah is away, the mice will play, and we’ll talk about topics Leah hates, so just wait.
Brian Barrett: And to be clear, she’ll be back next week. He is ill right now.
Zoe Schiffer: Yes.
Brian Barrett: It’s allergy season.
Zoe Schiffer: Welcome to WIRED uncanny valley. I’m Zoe Schieffer, WIRED’s business and industry director.
Brian Barrett: I’m Brian Barrett, executive editor.
Zoe Schiffer: This week on the show, we’re covering Nvidia’s annual developer conference, why some Tesla influencers are fleeing the brand, and why Meta has finally shut down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest. So to start, this week, Nvidia held its annual developer conference in San Jose. This is a big event in the AI industry. Some people also call it the Super Bowl of AI. Developers go, CEOs, researchers, WIRED reporters—and we’re all waiting to hear what CEO Jensen Huang is going to tell us about the future of the company.
Brian Barrett: Also one of the interesting things about the Nvidia conference is that I feel like there’s a lot of it that’s business-related. This isn’t a big thing that you, as an AI consumer or someone playing with the cloud, will necessarily engage with. One thing, take with a grain of salt, because it is the person who stands to make this money, but Jensen said that the revenue opportunity for artificial intelligence chips at Nvidia could reach at least a trillion dollars by 2027.
Zoe Schiffer: Pocket change.
Brian Barrett: Pocket change, I mean, really, for Nvidia at this point. One thing that was really interesting: they introduced a new product. I always like it when a product has an actual product associated with it rather than just a promise. Some time ago, Nvidia made a licensing deal with a company called Grok, not to be confused with the occasional-
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