NVDA

NVIDIA Corporation

stock all instruments
+134.0
net board stance what this means
225.78
-2.0% · close 2026-09-08
+1% / +8% / +34%
1m / 3m / 12m
+36%
vs SPY since 2025-05-17
86%
of 52w range · -4.1% off high
10/17
hit rate as primary · α -3
⚠ THE BOARD IS ARGUING WITH ITSELF — 2 live bullish ideas (+144.4) against 1 bearish (-10.4). Net them before sizing; don't hold both expressions.

Where we stand — 3 live ideas

ideacallplayconvictioncontributesflageval in
🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway ▲ LONG primary 86.6 +86.6 MOVING 346d
🤖 Nvidia + Hugging Face makes NVDA the open-source AI champion ▲ LONG primary 57.9 +57.9 481d
🤖 Nvidia risk: special-purpose silicon + Huawei CONTESTED ▼ SHORT primary 10.4 -10.4 438d

Where the winds are blowing

NET BOARD STANCE, LAST 60 EPISODES — rising = the besties are building this position, falling = abandoning it. Replayed from score_events; an idea counts from birth until its window closes.
PRICE VS SPY OVER THE SAME WINDOW, % — did the talk lead the tape or follow it?

Who's pushing which way

each voice's net push ON THIS TICKER — their most recent stance per idea × the idea's direction × strength, so supporting a bearish idea pushes down. Not conviction (that lives on the idea); this is direction of travel per person. what w= means

Chamath
Chamath w=0.90 tech
29 ideas (3 live) · last heard E288
+21
pushes up
Gavin Baker
Gavin Baker w=1.46 tech guest ×1.0
10 ideas (2 live) · last heard E285
+20
pushes up
Sacks
Sacks w=0.77 tech
18 ideas (2 live) · last heard E288
+17
pushes up
Jason
Jason w=1.05 tech
20 ideas (2 live) · last heard E288
+8
pushes up
Brad Gerstner
Brad Gerstner w=1.41 tech guest ×1.0
4 ideas (1 live) · last heard E284
+6
pushes up
PH
Philippe Laffont guest ×0.5
2 ideas (0 live) · last heard E227
+6
pushes up
JE
Jensen Huang guest ×0.5
2 ideas (2 live) · last heard E265
+6
pushes up
SA
Sam Altman guest ×0.5
2 ideas (0 live) · last heard E178
+4
pushes up
AA
Aaron Levie w=1.33 tech guest ×1.0
2 ideas (0 live) · last heard E208
+4
pushes up
TH
Thomas Laffont w=1.17 tech guest ×1.0
4 ideas (0 live) · last heard E232
+4
pushes up
BI
Bill Gurley guest ×1.0
1 idea (0 live) · last heard E141
+2
pushes up
MA
Mark Cuban guest ×0.5
1 idea (0 live) · last heard E198
+2
pushes up
CY
Cyan Banister guest ×1.0
3 ideas (0 live) · last heard E220
+2
pushes up
TR
Travis Kalanick w=1.33 tech guest ×1.0
3 ideas (0 live) · last heard E235
+2
pushes up
KE
Keith Rabois guest ×1.0
2 ideas (0 live) · last heard E235
+1
pushes up
RE
Reid Hoffman guest ×0.5
2 ideas (0 live) · last heard E194
+0
neutral
AN
Antonio Gracias guest ×0.5
2 ideas (0 live) · last heard E214
+0
neutral
BE
Ben Shapiro guest ×1.0
2 ideas (0 live) · last heard E238
+0
neutral
TI
Tim Dillon guest ×0.5
1 idea (0 live) · last heard E224
-1
pushes down
Friedberg
Friedberg w=1.08 tech
19 ideas (2 live) · last heard E284
-2
pushes down
SA
Sandeep Madra guest ×0.5
1 idea (0 live) · last heard E169
-2
pushes down
NA
Naval Ravikant guest ×0.5
2 ideas (0 live) · last heard E215
-5
pushes down

What resolves next

kill dates for the live ideas holding this ticker — each one turns into a scored verdict on that date, whether we like it or not

2027-08-22 346d 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway 87
2027-11-22 438d 🤖 Nvidia risk: special-purpose silicon + Huawei 10
2028-01-04 481d 🤖 Nvidia + Hugging Face makes NVDA the open-source AI champion 58

Track record on NVDA

As a PRIMARY play the besties are 10 hit / 0 partial / 7 miss over 17 closed windows — credit 0.59, average α -2.6. Adjacent plays are listed but never scored.

ideacallplayverdictRαclosed
🤖 Moore's law never ended - it moved to GPUs and expert systems go next level ▲ LONG primary HIT +248.3% +232.7 2023-09-01
🤖 Nvidia's monopoly margins get competed away by custom and open silicon ▼ SHORT primary MISS -181.2% -210.8 2024-08-25
🤖 AI value migrates from apps to the vertically integrated hardware/OS layer ▲ LONG adjacent PARTIAL +38.2% -1.8 2026-06-14
🤖 Pre-training scaling laws still hold — Colossus and Grok 3 are the proof ▲ LONG primary HIT +31.4% +16.7 2025-12-07
🤖 We run out of compute again in 2025 ▲ LONG primary HIT +26.4% +10.3 2026-01-04
🤖 Inference cost collapse deflates OpenAI, LLM startups and Nvidia's multiple ▼ SHORT primary MISS -186.1% -213.1 2025-01-06
🤖 AI collapses the cost of knowledge work to ten cents on the dollar ▲ LONG adjacent HIT +33.3% +9.4 2024-04-28
🤖 Inference cost is the gate on AI search — 10x too expensive today ▲ LONG primary HIT +509.9% +459.2 2025-02-11
🤖 ChatGPT plugins make OpenAI the next great computing platform ▲ LONG adjacent HIT +47.1% +17.5 2024-03-31
🤖 Generative AI is the next Silicon Valley bubble cycle ▲ LONG primary HIT +181.7% +164.9 2023-12-03
🤖 Enterprises tune and self-host open-source models instead of paying for proprietary APIs ▲ LONG adjacent PARTIAL +13.1% -26.9 2026-06-14
🏛️ Gulf capital realigns to a US bloc, displacing China's Belt and Road ▲ LONG primary HIT +66.2% +40.6 2026-05-17
🏛️ An FDA for AI — model deployment gets licensed at the compute layer ▲ LONG adjacent HIT +48.7% +23.0 2024-04-14
🤖 Forced KYC on cloud compute buyers dents hyperscaler revenue ▼ SHORT adjacent MISS -62.2% -85.8 2025-10-26
🏛️ US compute export controls keep China off the AI frontier from 2025 ▲ LONG primary HIT +31.4% +16.7 2025-12-07
📈 Nvidia's receivables build is the Blackwell transition, not vendor financing ▲ LONG primary HIT +54.6% +40.0 2026-03-29
🤖 DeepSeek proves frontier-model costs are collapsing ▼ SHORT primary MISS -58.5% -74.9 2026-01-25
🤖 DeepSeek R1 was distilled from OpenAI, not a clean $6M cost breakthrough ▲ LONG primary HIT +59.2% +42.9 2026-01-31
🤖 In-silico materials discovery cracks cheap battery chemistry ▲ LONG adjacent MISS -38.7% -60.7 2024-07-27
🤖 Stargate's $500B is marketing, not a real capex commitment ▼ SHORT adjacent MISS -13.1% -29.4 2026-01-25
🤖 Demand mix shifts to inference and Nvidia has to choose margin or share ▼ SHORT primary MISS -82.5% -122.3 2026-08-30
🤖 Nvidia forward-integrates into cloud and attacks the hyperscalers ▲ LONG primary HIT +23.4% +12.6 2025-05-24
🤖 Next year's foundation model commoditizes this year's AI app-layer startups ▲ LONG adjacent PARTIAL +19.9% +1.7 2025-09-20
📈 Founder-CEO public companies outperform any index ▲ LONG adjacent PARTIAL +13.9% +0.7 2025-05-31
🤖 A CUDA transpiler breaks Nvidia's software lock-in ▼ SHORT primary MISS -62.5% -83.8 2025-09-06
🤖 AI capex outruns app-layer revenue - Nvidia's terminal-value problem ▼ SHORT primary MISS -172.9% -228.2 2026-08-23
🏛️ Nvidia's Asia revenue is diverted China demand ▼ SHORT primary MISS -108.2% -147.9 2026-04-19

The tape — what was actually said

every capture on any idea holding NVDA, newest first · quotes verbatim, timestamps deep-link into the episode

Sacks Sacks support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E288 · 2026-09-04 ▶ 47:23
the reason why it's not going to be stopped is because consumers are adopting it ... Why are the data centers getting built? Why do people want to build them? It's because the demand is there from consumers and businesses. ... the adoption is pulling this whole thing forward
Jason Jason support ×3 ▲ on 🤖 Nvidia + Hugging Face makes NVDA the open-source AI champion E288 · 2026-09-04 ▶ 45:22
I believe right now, starting today, NVIDIA is the number one competitor for OpenAI and Anthropic, not just for tokens, but for enterprise compute. And I think now Jensen is the leading open source provider in America. ... He's going to catch up and blow past China and the Chinese models, I think, by the end of 2027
Chamath Chamath support ×3 ▲ on 🤖 Nvidia + Hugging Face makes NVDA the open-source AI champion E288 · 2026-09-04 ▶ 44:06
This Hugging Face thing will go down as one of the most important transactions in AI. Because you are creating now in the largest competitor and the largest most well-capitalized company a bulwark against all of this closed-source oligopoly insanity.
Chamath Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E287 · 2026-08-29 ▶ 41:02
we are supposed to be in the middle of an enormous financial buildout to support AI... thank God, we have companies like Nvidia, and Google, and Microsoft, and Meta, and Amazon who take on that burden... there's so much chirping, by the way, on the internet about the balance sheet of Nvidia, and blah, blah, blah. And I think people completely missed that these guys are putting the entire US economy on their back.
Sacks Sacks support ×3 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E287 · 2026-08-29 ▶ 29:34
So, what is the takeaway, I think, for the larger market here? It is that the AI boom is continuing. The other narrative that's getting shredded today is that this AI CapEx is a bubble. It's basically gonna end very soon. And what Nvidia is basically saying with its numbers and forecasts is actually, this AI CapEx is gonna continue well into the future. It's got real legs. And the amazing thing is that after these numbers, even despite the 8% bump, Nvidia is only trading at 12 times earnings.
Chamath Chamath oppose ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E286 · 2026-08-21 ▶ 5:29
That causes people to be less likely to invest in all the data centers. Data centers themselves are being shut down. Where does that leave frontier model companies? They're the most at risk. ... we are now in a very precarious situation that we could have frankly avoided.
Jason Jason support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E285 · 2026-08-14 ▶ 1:13:10
There is no world in which I don't see corporations spending five or 10 percent of the salaries of their employees on the equivalent in tokens... you are looking at $8 trillion in AI spend just in the United States. It is obviously going to happen. And if I am wrong and it is half... that is kind of where these companies are trending.
Sacks Sacks support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E285 · 2026-08-14 ▶ 1:03:24
The biggest risk is that you get a glut of compute and you get an overbuild. ... In a weird way, all the political headwinds, ... will almost guarantee that there's not an oversupply relative to the exponentially growing demand.
Gavin Baker Gavin Baker support ×3 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E285 · 2026-08-14 ▶ 1:11:08
The overwhelming majority of tokens are profitable for everyone in the chain, everyone. Anthropic is generating cash... When I hear these macro and value investors making an assumption that tokens are subsidized and this is all going to collapse in some circular financing bonfire, they're just wrong.
Brad Gerstner Brad Gerstner support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E284 · 2026-08-08 ▶ 43:40
The demand exists in the world today. I think it will exist in the world for, well, the next 12 to 24 months, ... I suspect this cannot keep up at this pace more than another two years or so. ... Famous last words, I don't see it today over the course of the next 12 to 18 months.
Friedberg Friedberg support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E284 · 2026-08-08 ▶ 3:42
Capex is high alpha, low beta in data center infrastructure, that capital. And model development theoretically could be high alpha, but it's very high beta. It's a very risky way to deploy capital.
Sacks Sacks support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E283 · 2026-07-31 ▶ 6:05
Is this correction driven by fundamentals, or is it driven by momentum? My view is that it's driven by momentum... the key question is the capex being invested in the AI boom — is that real or is it misguided?... My view is that it's real. I think there will be a return on all of this capex... this is temporary market volatility amplified by leverage.
Chamath Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E281 · 2026-07-18 ▶ 1:07:09
The most incredible thing is how extreme the price is at the front end of the curve, when you have verifiable, energizable power today. ... about 40 percent of all these projects are getting mothballed and stopped, and so it's creating this massive deficit of available energy to ... the extent that you actually want drug discovery, or ... we may actually not be able to service it
Chamath Chamath oppose ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E280 · 2026-07-11 ▶ 5:16
I sat down with my CTO today... right now, our token costs are doubling every 45 days... [and the downstream productivity?] maybe 5% max... you need to use a lot more tokens to get to this next iteration of improvement because we've effectively already asymptoted... everybody in the next three or four years will for sure go through [this reckoning]... [and per Fable's own numbers] the actual ROI [of AI on S&P-493 EPS] was somewhere between 1 and 2%.
Chamath Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E276 · 2026-06-13 ▶ 17:14
Two years ago, I bought 2000 acres in Arizona with a partner. ... allowed to build a two gigawatt data center. ... I just put in an offer for another ... when I started this project, it was like four or five billion and it's increased by
Chamath Chamath oppose ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E275 · 2026-05-29 ▶ 51:56
There was an economic and capital mode to training that is going away. ... we're getting these domain specific architectures at the silicon layer and then second, we're rebuilding all of the core components. ... the entire training complex in C and it's an order of magnitude increase ... why would we stick to the $10 billion training runs when we can have the $10 million training runs?
Gavin Baker Gavin Baker support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E274 · 2026-05-22 ▶ 4:34
if OpenAI and Anthropic call it $100 billion of ARR now, with 80%-ish gross margins on inference, the returns are there. ... if we add in Gemini, we add in Cursor, we add in XAI, we add in Open Source, it's not hard to see $200, $300, $400 billion of ARR at the end of this year at high margins. ... there's going to be a really strong ROI this year, even excluding
Chamath Chamath oppose ×2 ▼ on 🤖 Nvidia risk: special-purpose silicon + Huawei E274 · 2026-05-22 ▶ 1:19:00
at the end of this Grok transaction last year, my ... we're going to move to these domain-specific architectures. I thought that was like a fait accompli, ... But the reality is that that DSA market evolution is actually happening inside of Nvidia. That's what's so insane to me. ... These guys actually have domain-specific architectures because they're doing these design programs with every,
Gavin Baker Gavin Baker oppose ×3 ▼ on 🤖 Nvidia risk: special-purpose silicon + Huawei E274 · 2026-05-22 ▶ 1:14:22
there's a narrative that Nvidia is losing share to the TPU, ... within the Western AI world, within data centers that are being built, ... Nvidia's AI business is growing faster than Broadcom's, and faster than a lot of other companies that are seen as part of this ASIC sharegate story. ... these other ASICs are not being submitted for benchmarks. ... I think the reason they're not being submitted is they will lose.
Sacks Sacks support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E271 · 2026-05-01 ▶ 46:55
The bull thesis for AI just got validated in a single afternoon... $725 billion in CapEx guidance in 2026 from four companies... more than 2 percent of GDP... AI was 75 percent of GDP growth [last quarter]... AI is now synonymous with the growth of the American economy.
JE Jensen Huang support ×3 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E265 · 2026-03-19 ▶ 22:06
In just two years, computation went up by a factor 10,000x... We haven't even started scaling yet. We are absolutely at a million x... If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 with the tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed.
JE Jensen Huang oppose ×3 ▼ on 🤖 Nvidia risk: special-purpose silicon + Huawei E265 · 2026-03-19 ▶ 8:07
the $50 billion factory will generate for you the lowest cost tokens. ... even when the chips are free, it's not cheap enough. ... is coming to Nvidia, and the growth of open models is incredible. And that's all on Nvidia.
Sacks Sacks support ×1 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E264 · 2026-03-13 ▶ 39:04
there's a tremendous latent demand for the ability to generate code in large quantities, ... To be able to buy code on a metered basis as the cost per token keeps going down, it's kind of an amazing deal.
Chamath Chamath support ×3 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E264 · 2026-03-13 ▶ 44:54
I am building a one gigawatt data center in Arizona. ... When I greenlit that project, I thought it was going to be a four or $5 billion investment. ... now it's upwards of $50 billion for the powered shell, ... it's about a five to six-year payback just to get into the money. And then it's about 10 billion a year.
Chamath Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 🤖 AI compute capex supercycle has 12-24 months of runway E263 · 2026-03-06 ▶ 55:17
I have a small software company called 8090... our costs have more than tripled since November of 25. Between the inference cost that we pay AWS, which is ginormous, between our cost with Cursor, between Anthropic, we are just spending millions.