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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · March 19 · 32 min

(Preview) OpenAI’s Enterprise Pivot, The Rise of Agents and Bubble Counterpoints, Nvidia Changes Its Inference Story

Ben and Andrew begin with the news that OpenAI is shifting away from “side quests” and allocating resources to the enterprise space, including Dropbox history to explain OpenAI’s present, lessons in the enterprise space generally (and what you learn in business school), and OpenAI taking cues from 1980s Microsoft. From there: Talking through Ben’s article on Monday, including the implications of agents and questions about integration as durable differentiation for Anthropic and OpenAI. At the end: Nvidia’s new messaging on inference chips and Groq integration, and a word about winters (and whiners) in Wisconsin. To email the show: email@sharptech.fm @SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube @Stratechery Channel — YouTube Jensen Huang and Andy Grove, Groq LPUs and Vera CPUs, Hotel California — Stratechery Update Agents Over Bubbles — Stratechery An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About Accelerated Computing — Stratechery Interview OpenAI to Cut Back on Side Projects in Push to ‘Nail’ Core Business — Wall Street Journal Get all episodes of Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Greatest of All Talk, Asianometry and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $15/month or $150/year.

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Ben and Andrew begin with the news that OpenAI is shifting away from “side quests” and allocating resources to the enterprise space, including Dropbox history to explain OpenAI’s present, lessons in the enterprise space generally (and what you learn in business school), and OpenAI taking cues from 1980s Microsoft. From there: Talking through Ben’s article on Monday, including the implications of agents and questions about integration as durable differentiation for Anthropic and OpenAI. At the end: Nvidia’s new messaging on inference chips and Groq integration, and a word about winters (and whiners) in Wisconsin.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm


@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube

@Stratechery Channel — YouTube


Jensen Huang and Andy Grove, Groq LPUs and Vera CPUs, Hotel California — Stratechery Update

Agents Over Bubbles — Stratechery

An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About Accelerated Computing — Stratechery Interview

OpenAI to Cut Back on Side Projects in Push to ‘Nail’ Core Business — Wall Street Journal


Get all episodes of Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Greatest of All Talk, Asianometry and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $15/month or $150/year.

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