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Jensen Huang just told Stanford to their face that their compute problem is their own fault.
And then he explained exactly how to fix it.
This was the complaint: independent researchers, startups, universities across America can't get enough compute. AI is transforming science but the people doing science can't access the tools they need.
Jensen pushed back hard on one part.
It's not that Nvidia isn't delivering. It's that nobody is placing the orders. You can't show up expecting a billion dollars of compute to be sitting on the shelf.
But the deeper problem is structural. Universities stopped building centralized compute decades ago. Every department raises its own grants, controls its own budget and nobody shares.
"Stanford's not alone. You don't have a budget for a billion-dollar compute. It doesn't exist."
His prescription: Stanford has a $40 billion endowment. Cut $1 billion, give it to a cloud provider and give every student and researcher on campus access to AI supercomputers.
The same logic applies everywhere. The institutions that figure out how to pool compute and make it available to their best researchers will produce the next generation of breakthroughs.
The ones that keep running on laptops and individual grants will fall behind.
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