The biggest question I hear about NFTs is: “Why can’t I just screenshot that?” Or, put another way, why does a digital image that can be copied have any value? The answer, it turns out, isn’t in an explainer about blockchain technology (you’re welcome). The answer to why NFTs have any value is hiding in the art market that came before them. Because NFTs are weird, but it turns out art is already even weirder. To really understand NFTs, we have to zoom out a bit, and talk about the incredibly strange way we value art to begin with. And that story starts not with crypto, but with a fight at an art auction in 1973… This video explains why a JPEG can cost money, and how expensive art led to NFTs. Along the way, I get help from two incredible experts: David Galperin, head of contemporary art for the Americas at Sotheby’s, and Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit and investor. David tells me about how the Scull Sale in 1973 exploded the art market forever, how Andy Warhol gave his silk screens to appropriation artist Elaine Sturtevant so she could copy his prints, and how Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings go for millions but the value is in “the certificate, not the drawing.” Alexis gives me a tour of his NFT collection (!), shows me the Cryptopunk (Serenapunk!) he gave to his wife Serena Williams, and explains how this technology has become a new medium for artists looking to the future. Together, we explore the big questions people are asking about NFTs and how the art world has grappled with those same questions for decades: What is value? Where does it come from? What is too much, for too little? 00:00 Why do people buy NFTs? 01:04 How are NFTs like contemporary art? 03:41 Why is art so expensive? 05:10 Is art just money laundering? 06:07 Why do people buy NFTs? 07:41 Are NFTs just a link to an image? 08:47 Why do NFTs matter? 10:24 How do I do sponsorships?

What NVIDIA is trying to build next… Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories from our show Huge If True. You're probably hearing a lot about AI, DeepSeek, NVIDIA and more right now. If you want the big picture (and to start from the beginning), watch this Huge Conversation with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. In the last few years, NVIDIA has skyrocketed to become one of the world's most valuable companies. That's because, beginning in the 90s, they led a fundamental shift in how computers work, now unleashing the current explosion of what’s possible with technology. A huge amount of the most futuristic tech you’re hearing about - in AI, robotics, gaming, self-driving cars, breakthrough medical research - relies on new chips and software designed by him and his company. During the dozens of background interviews I did to prepare for this, what struck me most was how much Jensen Huang has already influenced all our lives over the last 30 years, and how many are saying it’s just the beginning of something even bigger… We all need to know what he’s building and why, and most importantly, what he’s trying to build next, so you can decide for yourself what you think of it. Welcome to the second episode of our new series, Huge Conversations… If you want to know what the most important people building the future are imagining it will look like, Huge Conversations is the show for you. This interview was recorded at CES in Las Vegas on January 7th, 2025. Watch our first episode of Huge Conversations with Mark Zuckerberg here:    • The Future Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying To Build   Watch our trailer to understand more about the mission of Huge Conversations:    • Something Huge Is Coming...   Chapters: 0:00 What is Jensen Huang trying to build? 1:40 The goal of this Huge Conversation 3:40 How did we get here? 4:25 What is a GPU? 5:45 Why video games first? 7:59 What is CUDA? 11:04 Why was AlexNet such a big deal? 15:40 Why are we hearing about AI so much now? 19:33 What are NVIDIA’s core beliefs? 21:34 Why does this moment feel so different? 24:08 What’s the future of robots? 30:15 What is Jensen’s 10-year vision? 32:00 What are the biggest concerns? 35:14 What are the biggest limitations? 38:05 How does NVIDIA make big bets on specific chips (transformers)? 42:33 How are chips made? 44:19 What’s Jensen’s next bet? 47:20 How should people prepare for this future? 50:12 How does this affect people’s jobs? 52:37 GeForce RTX 50 Series and NVIDIA DGX 55:50 What’s Jensen’s advice for the future? 59:07 How does Jensen want to be remembered?

You’ve probably heard about nuclear fusion. Maybe you've heard recent news about the Livermore National Lab achieving a nuclear fusion breakthrough called "ignition" - meaning it produced more energy than it took to start the reaction. That's a huge deal! But it leaves other questions unanswered. I wanted to know more. I started by asking the CEO of the nuclear fusion company Helion all my big questions: What is nuclear fusion, really? I know it happens on the sun, but how can we do it on earth? Are we doing it already? Then, I ask one last question: “I’ve heard about kids building fusion reactors in their moms’ garage… if fusion is so hard… what are THEY doing?” The answer sets off the most fun and ambitious Huge If True episode yet. It turns out that you can actually BUILD a nuclear fusion device. So I team up with my friend Simone Giertz to try. When something goes wrong, it turns into an explainer on what’s really going on with the world’s most-hyped energy source. Special thanks to Jessie, Ron and Joben at Helion for helping set up such an exciting shoot (and not giving up!). And thank you to Anna Bresnahan for helping shoot this episode! Chapters: 00:00 We tried to build a nuclear fusion reactor 03:07 What IS nuclear fusion? 04:51 Thank you, Oura! 05:31 How close are we to nuclear fusion? 07:30 How does nuclear fusion work? 08:31 How does the sun do fusion? 09:21 Magnetic confinement fusion 09:52 Inertial confinement fusion 10:37 Magneto-inertial confinement fusion 11:01 What does fusion LOOK like? 12:03 Why CAN'T we do fusion? 13:33 Why do we need fusion? Correction: 07:48 In plasma, one or more electrons are torn free from an atom (as opposed to protons and neutrons themselves being "broken into bits"!)

What can this human-like robot really do? Subscribe to support optimistic science and tech stories! You might know Atlas, the famous robot that does parkour and throws heavy objects in Boston Dynamics’ popular YouTube videos. I visited Boston Dynamics to challenge Atlas to a little friendly competition, to see what this robot can REALLY do. I wanted to answer a question I’ve had since I was a kid: When are all the robots coming? Like C-3PO! The Iron Giant! Sonny from “I, Robot”! Human-like machines that can help people do more than we can by ourselves. For most of my life, humanoid robots have seemed pretty far away. But recently? Not so much. Tesla with Optimus, Boston Dynamics with Atlas, NASA with Valkyrie, startups like Figure and many more are all making huge leaps in this field. In this video, we take you to the cutting edge of humanoid robots, to show you what they can actually do right now… and what you can expect in the robot future that’s coming. Chapters: 00:00 What is a humanoid robot? 01:16 Is Boston Dynamics Atlas real? 02:31 What does Atlas look like? 03:11 How big are humanoid robots? 03:49 Why build humanoid robots? 04:31 Why doesn’t Atlas have a tail.. or wings? 05:57 Human v Robot: Round 1 06:46 How can Atlas backflip... but not sit? 08:00 Human v Robot: Round 2 09:17 How does a robot handle adversity? 10:05 How smart is Atlas? 11:05 How does Atlas throw a bag? 11:50 Can Atlas learn? 12:27 Does Atlas use AI? 13:54 What does a humanoid robot really understand? 14:41 What about robot soldiers? 15:45 Why are humanoid robots “huge if true”? 16:50 What about… robot dogs?

Robot dogs are here. But why? Subscribe if you like optimistic science and tech stories! You might think you already know Spot, the robot dog from Boston Dynamics. Maybe you saw a viral video of it opening a door, or dragging a truck, or dancing. But now, this robot has hit a HUGE milestone... Spot got a job! These robots are now out in the real world doing real work, for fire departments, factories, defunct nuclear power plants like Fukushima, ancient ruins like Pompeii, deep mines, and, more controversially, police departments. You might already be starting to see robot dogs walking around, and even if you’re not, they’re starting to affect your life. That’s why we went to visit Boston Dynamics. In this video, we put Spot to the test, to show you what it’s really capable of, and how our future could be even better with robot dogs. Chapters: 00:00 What is Boston Dynamics robot dog? 1:33 What does Boston Dynamics robot dog do? 2:50 Why robot dogs? 3:32 Taking Spot on an obstacle course 4:33 When Spot falls down 5:34 How Spot protects itself and others 6:45 What equipment does Spot use? 7:20 How Boston Dynamics robot dog opens doors 8:05 Spot at Fukushima 8:29 Boston Dynamics robot dog working for the police 9:12 Concerns with weaponizing robot dogs 10:10 What should robot dogs be used for? 10:44 Why robot dogs are huge if true 11:43 Duh nah nah Inspector Spot

You’ve heard about quantum computers. Maybe you’ve seen the “race for quantum supremacy” between governments and companies, or read that quantum computers will break all encryption, or heard terms like “qubits” or “superposition” or “quantum mechanics” in a confusing tv segment. But you might be wondering… what does a quantum computer actually DO? And how could it actually affect my life? ‪@mkbhd‬ and I had the same questions. Marques and I both realized quantum computing was this big important technology… that we didn’t really understand. So we decided to go on an adventure to learn the truth about quantum computers. And we're taking you with us, to show you what we learn as we learn it. But more importantly, to show you how these crazy computers might actually impact YOUR life... sooner than you think. Chapters: 00:00 What is a quantum computer? 02:00 Why is quantum computing important? 04:00 The Quantum Video Game analogy 07:40 What does a quantum computer look like? 09:38 How does a quantum computer work? 12:00 What is a quantum computer good for? 13:21 Will quantum computers break all encryption? 15:22 What's the future of quantum computing? 16:27 Updating the Quantum Video Game analogy