The Art of the Wait on Artificial Intelligence

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Nvidia’s CEO unveiled a new line of AI chips at the company’s developers conference, but not all customers are buying in just yet. Plus, many corporate leaders feel they have no choice but to go all-in on an AI strategy. We speak with WSJ contributor Joe Peppard on why this could be a mistake. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, March 25th. I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street
0:37.3	Journal.
0:38.2	We spend a lot of time talking about the ways artificial intelligence platforms can make life
0:42.6	easier and the pace at which people and companies are adopting it. But not everyone is getting
0:48.3	in on that trend. Today, stories of the not-so-fast adopters, including some corporate executives who aren't quite buying
0:56.0	NVIDIA's push to upgrade to the latest chip rollout.
0:59.4	Then, if in the frenzied race to leverage AI, your company has been slowed to integrate its
1:04.1	varied uses into day-to-day operations, one researcher says that might actually be a good thing.
1:21.8	But first, new product launches can be hard to resist, and that's what NVIDIA is hoping will be the case when it comes to the latest update to its Blackwell chips, which help power AI systems.
1:27.4	CEO Jensen Wong took the wraps
1:29.2	off his company's latest technology, which is the successor to its Hopper chips at last week's
1:34.5	developers conference. And he did his best to convince company decision makers in attendance
1:39.0	that now is the time to level up. There are circumstances where Hopper is fine.
1:45.2	That's the best thing I could say about Hopper.
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