Nvidia spokespeople have addressed the market reaction with written statements to a similar effect, though Huang had yet to make public comments on the topic until Thursday's event. Huang has been defending against the growing concern that model scaling is in trouble for months. Even before DeepSeek burst into the public consciousness in January, reports that model improvements at OpenAI were slowing down roused suspicions that the AI boom might not deliver on its promise — and Nvidia, therefore, wouldn't continue to cash in at the same rate. In November, Huang stressed that scaling is alive and well; it has simply shifted from training to inference. Huang also said Thursday that post-training methods are "really quite intense," and models will keep improving with new reasoning methods. Huang's DeepSeek comments may serve as a preview for Nvidia's first earnings call of 2025, scheduled for February 26.