Good morning. We’re not going to talk about Alexa Plus — a generative-AI-enhanced version of Alexa — today. We’re also not going to talk about the rumors that the launch of GPT-4.5 is “imminent.”

We’re going to talk about Nvidia, and what it all means for the broader market.

— Ian Krietzberg, Editor-in-Chief, The Deep View

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AI for Good: Precision medicine

One of the most significant promises of machine learning technology is something called precision medicine, a medicinal approach that centers around treatments targeted to the biological quirks of a given individual. Since the basis of precision medicine involves finding patterns in massive quantities of data, machine learning is something of an ideal tool, here. 

ReviveMed, an MIT-spinout, is one of several companies exploring the commercialization of precision medicine. The team has spent years creating a generative AI platform designed specifically to target metabolites, an approach that was first verified in 2016. 

How it works: Metabolites refer to small molecules that are products of metabolism, so think amino acids, for instance. 

In January, the team announced the launch of mzLearn, an algorithm specifically designed for metabolite signal detection. In trials, the system demonstrated a high level of metabolite signal detection, indicating that early and precise diagnosis and targeted therapeutics are starting to become possible. The paper demonstrating the new algorithm has not been peer-reviewed. 

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Report: Most workers don’t use chatbots

Considering the fact that we’re about to talk about Nvidia’s earnings, which, among other things, are indicative of the breadth and success of the AI ecosystem, I figured it would make sense to take a look at a recent poll from Pew Research Center on the use of generative AI in the workplace. 

The details: In a representative survey of more than 5,000 Americans designed to explore the reality of generative AI adoption in the workplace, Pew found that it’s, at best, moving slowly. 

The findings: Significantly, the survey found that 40% of those polled never use generative AI chatbots for work, and an additional 29% haven’t even heard of chatbots. 7% use chatbots a few times a month, and 9% use chatbots somewhere between every day and a few times a week. 

More than half of those polled are worried about the use of generative AI in the workplace, and a third expect the tech will lead to fewer job opportunities for them. 

But for now, more than two years into the ChatGPT-inspired chatbot craze, generative AI doesn’t seem to have taken over the working world, something that doesn’t seem to support the enormous investments being poured into building out generative AI infrastructure. 

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Nvidia beats expectations, but Wall Street wanted more

Before we get to Nvidia’s numbers, we have to talk about what’s been going on, lately. 

Let’s start with the Magnificent 7, that coalition of Big Tech hyperscalers that includes Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Tesla. Way back before the term “AI” had entered the public vernacular (I’m talking about 2022), the tech sector had itself a very rough year. 

But investors, excited by the prospect of generative AI represented by the bulk of the Mag 7, treated these Big Tech players far more kindly in 2023, a year that marked the beginning of a tech stock surge that seems, finally, to be running out of steam. 

This is a theme that has not continued into 2025. Investors seem to be growing increasingly concerned about the eye-watering capital expenditures being poured into AI infrastructure, and the lack of AI-related revenue to match, something that was recently compounded by DeepSeek’s release of high-performance, partially open-source generative AI models, models that are significantly less costly to both operate and use compared to entrenched options. 

As such, it is perhaps unsurprising that the market has not treated these names all too kindly in the wake of their first-quarter earnings reports. 

In the past month, Tesla is down 27%, Google is down more than 10%, Microsoft is down 7% and Amazon is down 7%. Nvidia is up less than 2% over the past month, while Apple and Meta are both up around 6%.

This has dragged both the S&P and the tech-heavy Nasdaq down in kind; over the past month, both indices are down more than 1%. Things became somewhat concentrated over the past week, with the S&P on Wednesday finally — and barely — breaking a four-day losing streak by notching a measly gain of .01%. 

While tech has been bleeding — unsurprising, due to investors’ impression that these names are pretty heavily over-valued — signs are also appearing that all is not well with the U.S. economy. The Consumer Confidence Index slipped seven points for February, the largest monthly drop since August of 2021, something that coincides both with mass government layoffs and President Donald Trump’s affirmation that tariffs against Canada and Mexico “will go forward” in March. 

Now, Nvidia has become well-known for reporting enormous levels of growth and revenue, always above Wall Street’s expectations. A highly positive report from Nvidia could be enough to send tech stocks back into the green, since it acts as a barometer for the AI trade; if the trade is intact, developers will be buying lots of chips, those ‘picks and shovels’ of the AI race. But lately, expectations have been so high that high performance is no longer enough. 

Ok, that said, here’s how they did:

These record numbers were, yet again, “driven by demand for … generative AI,” according to Nvidia’s CFO outlook letter. Sales of Nvidia’s latest Blackwell chip were “led by large cloud service providers which represented approximately 50% of our Data Center revenue,” something that’s indicative of the circular nature of the AI economy. 

For the first quarter of this year, Nvidia expects around $43 billion in revenue, above the $41.78 billion anticipated by analysts. 

On the call, CFO Colette Kress assured investors that the efficiency gains represented by models like DeepSeek’s V3 or R1 will not make Nvidia irrelevant; on the contrary, the Chain-of-Thought reasoning approach we’ve been hearing so much about “can require 100 times more compute per task compared to one shot inferences,” meaning developers will still need those picks and shovels. 

CEO Jensen Huang said that demand for the Blackwell chip is “extraordinary,” adding that the company has (finally) “successfully ramped up” production of the chip. Huang also said that the era of, first, agents, then physically embodied AI and robotics is just beginning, a possible boon to Nvidia’s business. 

The stock, which closed the day up around 3%, fell more than 1% in after-hours trading — a big earnings beat and strong first-quarter guidance were not, it seems, enough for Wall Street. 

For context, Nvidia’s market cap was $530 billion this time in 2023 and $1.78 trillion in February of 2024. Today, the stock has a market cap of $3.2 trillion, a valuation that is well above its full-year revenue of $130 billion. 

Deepwater’s Gene Munster called the results “great but not extraordinary.” 

Last night, we heard from Nvidia what we’ve been hearing for two years, now — record revenue, insane demand and the promise of more record revenue and even more insane demand next quarter. 

But the stock is no longer rallying in the face of these pronouncements the way it did in the early days. 

This has run for two years, and with inflationary pressures edging nearer all the time, coupled with the fact that investments in AI are far, far outpacing revenue, confidence in Nvidia seems to be flagging. 

I expect that today, Nvidia will bleed. I don’t think this report was enough to turn this ship around. 

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