He was the biggest shareholder! Missing NVIDIA’s big fish tail, Son Zhengyi cried and leaned on Huang Renxun’s shoulder

The NVIDIA AI Summit Japan kicked off today, with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang talking fireside with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Huang Renxun jokingly said that Masayoshi Son was once the largest shareholder of NVIDIA after the latter heard about it, he immediately cried and cried on Huang Renxun’s shoulders and comforted him.

Huang Renxun said that SoftBank was once the largest shareholder of NVIDIA Without Japan and the first artificial intelligence supercomputer, NVIDIA would not be what it is today. Looking back ten years ago, Huang Renxun said that Masa (Masayoshi Son) had offered to give him money to buy all of NVIDIA. implemented.

In fact, Masayoshi Son once admitted at the shareholders’ meeting that he regretted selling his NVIDIA shares too soon. “It’s hard to think about the missed opportunities. Unexpectedly, Huang Renxun brought up this matter again.

NVIDIA announced that it will work with SoftBank to accelerate Japan’s transformation into a global AI powerhouse, using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture to build Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputer, which will be used by Grace Blackwell in the future at the same time, SoftBank will use the NVIDIA AI Aerial accelerated computing Platform, which has been successfully tested around the world.

NVIDIA and SoftBank also announced the use of NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to build an AI marketplace to meet Japan’s local needs for safe AI computing. This new service will support AI training and edge AI decision, making SoftBank Japan’s AI grid, promoting new business opportunities for Japanese businesses, consumers and enterprises to create AI services, to distribute and use.

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