# Betting it all on Green

URL: /show/coder-radio/557/
> Why we think Nvidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world, Sam's new "mind boggling" idea, and more.

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 557
- Date: 2024-02-14
- Hosts: chris, michael
- Duration: 00:45:23
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/b44de5fa-47c1-4e94-bf9e-c72f8d1c8f5d/9b461703-b757-4753-8b39-663e8406035c.mp3



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  * [Build a Custom LLM with Chat With RTX ](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-on-rtx/chat-with-rtx-generative-ai/ "Build a Custom LLM with Chat With RTX ") — Chat With RTX is a demo app that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content—docs, notes, videos, or other data. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers. And because it all runs locally on your Windows RTX PC or workstation, you’ll get fast and secure results.
  * [Charlie Bilello on X](https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1757087732130615398 "Charlie Bilello on X") — With a $1.83 trillion market cap, Nvidia just passed Amazon to become the 4th largest US company.
  * [Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion for AI chips. The natural resources required would be 'mind boggling'](https://venturebeat.com/ai/sam-altman-wants-up-to-7-trillion-for-ai-chips-the-natural-resources-required-would-be-mind-boggling/ "Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion for AI chips. The natural resources required would be 'mind boggling'") — “If it does work out, the amount of natural resources that will be required is just mind-boggling,” she told VentureBeat. “Even if the energy is renewable (which it isn’t guaranteed to be), the quantity of water and rare earth minerals required is astronomical.” 
  * [garry on X](https://twitter.com/garrynewman/status/1755851884047303012 "garry on X") — Google's Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in c# because it's unethical.
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