AI Cycle 101: NVIDIA Reacts to OpenAI Mentioning Money

This is a humorous edited meme using black and white footage from the classic comedy series The Three Stooges. The character on the left, overlaid with the NVIDIA company logo, is holding his face in both hands in an expression of exasperation or awkwardness. The character on the right, overlaid with the OpenAI logo, is speaking to him. A subtitle at the bottom of the image reads "And speaking of money,". The joke references the financial dynamic in the AI industry: NVIDIA sells high-cost GPUs that AI companies like OpenAI rely on heavily, so OpenAI bringing up money-related topics (like the high cost of running AI services, most of which goes to purchasing NVIDIA hardware) elicits an awkward reaction from NVIDIA, who profits greatly from these expenses.

This meme was originally posted to the Reddit Meme subreddit with the title "Ai cycle 101". It is a derivative work that takes a clip from The Three Stooges, overlays logos of the two major tech companies NVIDIA and OpenAI on the characters, and adds a subtitle to create a joke about the financial relationship between GPU manufacturers and AI development firms in the modern tech industry.