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Sell Me This Pen: Altman Asks, Jensen Lends the Money
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A two-panel meme in Wolf of Wall Street 'sell me this pen' style with face-swapped tech CEOs. Top panel: Sam Altman's face on the diner-scene character holding a pen toward another man, captioned 'SELL ME THIS PEN'. Bottom panel: Jensen Huang in his signature leather jacket and glasses, holding the pen, captioned 'I'LL LEND YOU THE MONEY TO BUY IT'. The meme skewers the circular financing of the AI boom: Nvidia investing billions in OpenAI, which then spends those billions buying Nvidia GPUs - vendor financing dressed up as demand, the round-trip revenue everyone politely declines to call a bubble
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It's not a bubble, it's a directed acyclic graph - well, acyclic until you trace where the GPU money goes
They call it zero-copy financing: the same dollar never leaves the Nvidia ecosystem.