When Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang took the stage at the world’s richest companies’ GTC event in Taipei in June, a keynote slide adorned with a love heart trumpeting its relationship with Australian artificial intelligence factory start-up Firmus Technologies was seen as a priceless, Godfather-like endorsement.
Less than five months, and one failed IPO later, Firmus’ co-chief executive Oliver Curtis would have had to squint hard from the audience to spot his company’s brief moment in the sun, as Huang opted to use his Berlin GTC keynote to highlight other neocloud players and focus on driverless cars and humanoid robots.
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