Jensen’s GTC Keynote brings the Spark

Welcome to AI Collision 💥,

In today’s collision between AI and our world:

• My custom build is done!
• Jensen’s custom build is (a little) better
• Keynote 2025

If that’s enough to get the PC made redundant, read on…

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Within a couple hours of completing the build of my new PC, Jensen Huang took to the stage for Nvidia’s GTC 2025 keynote.

The most hotly anticipated moment of 2025 and also Huang’s keynote.

I did record video of my build. But I’ll admit there were (very) large chunks of it where I’m just staring at a motherboard within which I could barely squeeze my ham fists, trying to figure out which plug goes where to ensure I didn’t blow the bloody thing up.

I’ll see if I can cut together something that resembles something useful in the coming week or so. But I will say this, and maybe I’m being pedantic, but cable management is by far the hardest thing in building a PC. Sure, you could be wild with it, cables everywhere, but that’s not how I wanted it to look.

Like my Dad always said, “if you can’t play football out on the oval, at least look like you can.”

Anyway here’s my completed build, let me know if you think it looks like it can play football! (Note: I tidied up the cabling a little more too after the video)

Then Jensen Huang hits the stage, talks about their fancy AI chips, the fancier AI chips coming, humanoid robots, self driving cars, the multiverse, AI factories, tokens, and some of the most jaw dropping stuff ever uttered by a human being.

And then Nvidia releases the DGX Spark (formerly the DIGITs project) and puts my crumby little self-built PC into the realms of the Commodore 64 in the space of about a day.

Thanks, Jensen…

But I guess he’s got a $2.5 trillion company to run.

The DGX Spark is the little desktop and the DGX Station is the larger version for the “personal AI computer” market.

There’s a lot in the keynote, which we’re unpacking, analysing and trying to see just where the opportunites exist. To be fair, the whole thing did not much for Nvidia’s stock price, but that’s more a problem with the wider market than anything Nvidia didn’t say about how far in front of the competition they are, or how massive their technology moat is, or how revolutionary their roadmap for the near future looks.

If you’ve got a spare hour or two, check it out. I like to think this is far more entertaining watching than the next eposide or two of Severance or Reacher (albeit both are fantastic).

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Boomers & Busters 💰

AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).

Boom 📈

• Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) up 31%
• Micron (NASDAQ:MU) up 14%
• Arm (NASDAQ:ARM) up 7%

Bust 📉

• UiPath (NYSE:PATH) down 8%
• BigBear.ai (NYSE:BBAI) down 6%
• Meta (NASDAQ:META) down 3%

From the hive mind 🧠

• GM and Nvidia, AI, factories, robotics, automation, and self-driving car technology. This collaboration leverages Nvidia’s expertise in AI hardware and software to enhance GM’s manufacturing processes and accelerate its autonomous vehicle development – in short. More self driving cars are coming!
• Everyone has an AI model. Everyone. Now it’s LG’s turn with EXAONE. And it seems their might even be the best one yet!
• Just when it seems like 5G has rolled out, another “G” comes along. It’s now time for 6G… I wonder if people will freak out about 6G being able to read their minds this time?

Artificial Polltelligence 🗳️

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Sam Volkering

Editor-in-Chief

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