Last July Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg sat on stage at a conference with Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang, marveling at the wonders of artificial intelligence. The current AI models were so good, Zuckerberg said, that even if they never got any better it’d take five years just to figure out the best products to build with them. “It’s a pretty wild time,” he added, then — talking over Huang as he tried to get a question in — “and it’s all, you know, you kind of made this happen.”
Zuckerberg’s compliment caught Huang off guard, ...