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Even the chip makers are making LLMs

March 10, 2026 00:26:53 4.63 MB ( 21.17 MB less) Downloads: 0

Ryan welcomes Kari Briski, NVIDIA’s VP of Generative AI Software for Enterprise, to the show to explore how a chip manufacturer got into the model development game. They discuss NVIDIA’s co-design feedback loop between model builders and hardware architects, share insights on precision model training and memory management systems, and take a look at the roadmap and development of NVIDIA’s fully open-source Nemotron. 

Episode notes: 

Nemotron is a family of open models with open weights, training data, and recipes for building specialized AI agents.You can learn more on their Hugging Face page or at NVIDIA GTC on March 16-19. 

Connect with Kari on LinkedIn.

Congrats to user The4thIceman for winning a Populist badge on their answer to How to Center Text in Pygame.

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