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u1hcw9nxtoday at 3:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

If Nvidia is a bank, it's an Islamic Bank. They don't take interest (usury), they share profits and risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance

Imagine a scenario where the AI bubble bursts and AI companies and neoclouds go bankrupt en masse, and then a huge rebound occurs when AI has a delayed takeoff. Nvidia ends up with a massive amount of compute on its hands from its backstop deals, and it also owns assets from failed companies when profits start to grow. New startups running using Hugging take the place of OpenAI and Anthropic when their compute assets are divided between survivors like Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta.

If/when there is an AI crash, any number of small startups can buy compute for the price of electricity without anyone wanting to buy them. That is when the real innovation happens. The top of the hype cycle is usually more about getting rich quick and buying and shutting down competition.


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 4:21 PM

> They don't take interest (usury)

Nvidia booked $496 million in interest income in Q2 alone [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026... page 15

caaqiltoday at 3:57 PM

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