Why Nvidia called their next generation compute "Feynman"

For the same reason Musk bought Tesla, to give the appearance of a genius to the commercialization of existing ideas for da moolah.

Richard Feynmann helped people, myself included, to sharpen their wits, especially when encountering problems and situations "not in the databank". He was also immensely creative, inventing a new way of describing the behavior and interaction of subatomic particles.

The opposite of invidious.