Jensen Huang: The collaboration period with SK Hynix will exceed two years
Jensen Huang and SK Hynix, this “chip couple,” are renewing their vows again, with their collaboration set to exceed two years and leaving room for “continual extension.” It sounds sweet, but the taste is metallic. NVIDIA moves billions of dollars’ worth of HBM high-bandwidth memory from SK Hynix every year, and this year’s procurement volume will see a “significant increase.” This isn’t cooperation—it’s a deep binding and strategic stranglehold by a dominant arms dealer on a key component suppl
Analysis
Shifting focus from Silicon Valley’s chip aristocracy to the domestic scene, a company called “HuaChao ShenKong” just secured a hundred-million-dollar angel round, with a name straight out of a martial arts manual—“AI Ultrasound Brain-Machine.” Jingwei, Delian, Daoyuan, and a host of well-known VCs are racing to invest. In the brain-computer interface field, Elon Musk’s Neuralink is putting monkeys on the altar of video games, while countless pipelines in global labs are still stuck in papers and prototype stages. Demanding a “hundred-million-dollar” valuation at the angel round—this bubble is more elusive than the brain signals they aim to decode. Technical validation and industrialization? The road is long enough to circle the earth three times. Are the investors’ generosity today a bet on the stars and seas a decade away, or on a media headline for cashing out next quarter? In this field, the flashy demo you see today is likely its highest point ever.
Placing a few trending news stories together, the concentration of magical realism is off the charts. “After using AI, the company seems poorer”—this headline is practically a wail. How many bosses jumped in with heavy investment chasing the fairy tale of “cost reduction and efficiency improvement,” only to end up with unusable models, unaffordable API bills, and more anxious employees? AI hasn’t become the engine of profit but first became a bottomless pit of costs. Next up: “A trillion-dollar AI company bans using AI during interviews.” See, the shovel-selling giants themselves know how unreliable this tool is in the “craftsman” domain of creating real value. They use AI to optimize resume screening and interview scheduling, but absolutely prohibit candidates from cheating when showcasing their true skills. This is the ultimate performance art: while hyping AI as a disruptor of all jobs, they fear AI’s distortion in the most critical talent assessment. It’s as if they’re saying: you can play with AI, but for real skill, show those hands untainted by algorithms.
Then there’s “OpenAI chip veteran joins Anthropic”—does it resemble martial arts masters drifting between major sects? In the ultimate competition for AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), the movement of top “weaponsmiths” (chip experts) speaks louder than any financial report about shifts in power. The faster OpenAI’s commercialization wagon races, the more likely its research idealism gets left behind. Talents vote with their feet. Their migration paths quietly sketch a draft of the future AI power map.
The entire AI industry now resembles a massive overheating engine, fueled by capital and anxiety, with data and computing power burning in the cylinders. The Jensens of the world count money at the top of the industrial chain, the HuaChao ShenKongs sing their triumph in financing news, while countless small and medium-sized companies grow “poorer the more they use AI” through trial and error, and giants quietly erect “No AI Allowed” signs in their backyards. Mania and sobriety, triumphs and laments, promises and precautions—all coexist in the same time and space in a fractured manner. We’ve had enough grand narratives about changing the world; it’s time to sniff out the overly real, burnt-money, and humanly complex undertone beneath. When the tide recedes, who’s skinny-dipping remains unknown, but one thing is certain: those who first cry cold and poor are always the ones washed ashore by the waves, yet think they’ve grasped a pearl.
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