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The conversation we've had on the pod a
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number of times is, "Oh my god, look at
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the token usage in our companies. It is
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growing massively. And some people are
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asking, hey, when I join a company, how
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many tokens do I get cuz I want to be an
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effective employee?" You've postulated,
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I believe, $75,000 in tokens for each
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engineer or something like that. So, are
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you spending in Nvidia a billion, $2
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billion on tokens from your engineering
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team right now?
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>> We're trying to. Let me give you a
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thought experiment. Let's say you have a
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software engineer or AI researcher and
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you pay them $500,000 a year. We do that
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all the time. That $500,000 engineer at
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the end of the year, I'm going to ask
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them, how much did you spend in tokens?
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If that person said $5,000, I will go
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ape something else. Yes.
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>> If that $500,000 engineer did not
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consume at least $250,000 worth of
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tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed.
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And this is no different than one of our
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chip designers who says, "Guess what?
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I'm just going to use paper and pencil.
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I don't think I'm going to need any CAD
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tools."
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>> This is a real paradigm shift to start
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thinking about these all-star employees.
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It almost reminds me of of what we
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learned in the NBA when LeBron James
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started spending a million dollars a
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year just on his health of his body like
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and maintaining it. That's right.
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>> Here he is at age 41 still playing.
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These are incredible knowledge workers.
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Why wouldn't we give them superhuman
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abilities?
