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Huang calls President Trump America's unique competitive advantage over other countries
“America's unique advantage that no country possibly have is President Trump.”
Jensen Huang: Dario Amodei's $1T AI revenue forecast is conservative
“I think he, I think he's being very conservative. I believe Dario and Anthropica is going to do way better than that.”
Huang: Free competing chips aren't cheap enough if throughput lags Nvidia
“That's the reason why I said that even for most chips, if you can't keep up with the state of the technology and the pace that we're running, even when the chips are free, it's not cheap enough.”
Jensen Huang: Top US AI security risk is slow domestic adoption
“Our greatest source of national security concern with respect to AI is that other countries adopt this technology while we are so angry at it or afraid of it or somehow paranoid of it that Our industries, our society don't take advantage of AI.”
Huang: Enterprise software will get 100x more usage from AI agents
“The enterprise software industry is limited by butts and seats. It's about to get a hundred times more agents banging on those tools.”
Jensen Huang: Nvidia's market share in China fell from 95% to 0%
“At the current moment as we speak, NVIDIA gave up a 95% market share in the second largest market in the world, and we're at zero percent.”
Huang: Chinese firms placed purchase orders with Nvidia following license approvals
“We informed the Chinese companies and many of them have given us purchase orders. And so we're gonna, we're in the process of cranking up our supply chain again to go ship.”
Huang: AI infrastructure buildout will reach multi-trillion dollar scale
“My sense is that we're probably, you know, a couple of hundred billion dollars, maybe a few hundred billion dollars into a Multi-trillion dollar infrastructure build out.”
Huang: US will produce $500B in AI supercomputers over next four years
“In Arizona and Texas, we will, in the next four years, probably produce about half a trillion dollars worth of AI supercomputers.”
Huang: Chinese AI labs offer the world's most advanced open models
“The Chinese AI labs are the world, world's leading open, open model companies. They offer the most advanced open models.”
Huang: $2T telecom industry will transform into AI infrastructure
“One of the most important ones is one that we're working on that basically turns the telecommunications base stations Into part of the AI infrastructure. So now, all of the, it's a two trillion dollar industry. All of that in time will be transformed into an e…”
Huang: Nvidia's $50B inference factory yields the lowest token cost
“It is very likely that the fifty billion dollar factory, and in fact, I can prove it, that the fifty billion dollar factory will generate for you the lowest cost tokens.”
Jensen Huang calls physical AI a $50 trillion market opportunity
“Physical AI as a large category. It's technology industry's first opportunity to address a 50 trillion dollar industry that has largely been, you know, void of technology until now.”
Jensen Huang predicts healthcare and digital biology will inflect in five years
“In five years time, I completely believe that the healthcare industry or digital biology is going to inflect.”
Huang: Open source is second in AI usage, Anthropic a distant third
“Open AI is number one, open source is number two, very distant third is Anthropic”
Huang: A $500k software engineer should consume $250k in AI tokens annually
“If that 500,000 dollar engineer did not consume at least 250,000 dollars worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed.”
Huang: Every software engineer will manage 100 AI agents
“And I'm, I think that every engineer is going to have a hundred agents.”
Jensen Huang: AI models are underlying technology, not standalone products
“Models is a technology, not a product. Models is a technology, not a service.”
Jensen Huang predicts everything that moves will eventually be autonomous
“We believe that everything that moves will be autonomous, completely or partly. Someday.”
Huang: Nvidia is gaining AI infrastructure market share
“Surprisingly, NVIDIA's gaining market share. If you look at where we are today, we're gaining share.”
Huang: Every medical instrument in hospitals will eventually be agentic
“Every single instrument, whether it's ultrasound or, You know, CT or whatever instrument we interact with in a hospital in the future will be agentic.”
Jensen Huang predicts widespread robotic deployment within three to five years
“And so a couple, two, three cycles would basically be somewhere around three years to five years. That's it. Three years to five years, we're gonna have robots all over the place.”
Jensen Huang: U.S. robotics relies deeply on China's supply chain
“I think China is, is formidable. And the reason for that is because their microelectronics, their motors, their rare earth or magnets, which is foundational to robotics, they are the world's best. And so in a lot of ways, our robotics industry relies deeply on…”
Huang: Enterprise software firms will resell Anthropic and OpenAI tokens
“I believe every single enterprise software company will also be a reseller, value-added reseller of Anthropics tokens. Value-added reseller of OpenAI.”
Huang: AI adoption increased overall demand for radiologists rather than eliminating jobs
“The surprising outcome is the number of radiologists actually went up And the demand for radiologists is skyrocketed.”
Huang: Workers not using AI will lose jobs to AI users
“If you're not using AI, you're gonna lose your job to somebody who uses AI.”
Huang: $500B in AI supercomputers will drive trillions in AI industry
“That half a trillion dollars worth of AI supercomputers will probably drive a few trillion dollars worth of AI industry.”
Huang predicts everything that moves will eventually be autonomous
“Everything in the world that moves will be autonomous someday. And that someday is probably around the corner.”
Huang: Every machine manufacturer will operate both physical and AI factories
“Every company that builds machines will have two factories. There's the machine factory, for example, cars, and then there's the AI factory to create the AI for the cars.”
Huang: I have created more billionaires on my management team than anyone
“First of all, I've created more billionaires on my management team than any CEO in the world.”
Jensen Huang: High expectations lead to low resilience and hinder career success
“People with very high expectations have very low resilience. And unfortunately, resilience matters in success.”
Jensen Huang: Greatness stems from character forged in suffering, not intelligence
“And greatness is not intelligence. It's greatness comes from character. And character is informed out of smart people. It's formed out of people who suffered.”
Huang: AI inference pipeline is the most complicated computing problem today
“The processing pipeline of inference is extremely complicated. And in fact, it is the most complicated computing problem today.”
Huang: Nvidia plans to add Groq to optimize data center workloads
“Today, NVIDIA's computing is spread across GPUs, CPUs, switches, scale up switches, scale out switches, networking processors, and now we're going to add Grok to that, and we're going to put the right workload on the right chips.”
Jensen Huang: Nvidia's total addressable market probably increased 33% to 50%
“So NVIDIA's TAM, if you will, increased from whatever it was to probably something, call it, you know, 33%, 50% higher.”
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's physical AI business is near $10 billion annually
“It is a multi-billion dollar business for us. It's close to ten billion dollars a year now.”
Huang: Open agentic frameworks are the OS blueprint for modern computing
“This is basically the blueprint, the operating system of modern computing. And it's going to run literally everywhere.”
Huang: Reasoning and agentic AI drive compound 10,000x increase in compute
“When we went from generative to reasoning, the amount of computation we needed was about a hundred times. When we went from reasoning to agentic, the computation is probably another hundred times.”
Huang: 40% of Nvidia's business requires CUDA and full AI stack
“About 40% of our business, most people don't realize this, 40% of our business, unless you have the CUDA stack, unless you can build an entire AI factory, you have, the customers don't know what to do with you.”
Huang: AWS will purchase 1 million Nvidia chips in coming years
“In the case of AWS, I think they just announced, I think it was yesterday, that they're gonna buy a million chips in the next couple years.”
Jensen Huang: AI applications will rely on specialized custom-trained sub-agents
“I believe that these models, they're gonna have general, general models that are connected into the software company's agentic system. Many of those models are cloud models and proprietary models, but many of those models are specialized sub-agents that they'v…”
Huang: 100% of Nvidia software engineers and chip designers use AI
“Every single software engineer today uses AI, not one left behind. A hundred percent of our chip designers use AI.”
Huang: NVIDIA Hopper GPUs retain up to 80% value after one year
“If you look at the residual value of NVIDIA gear right now, Hopper for example, one year later, it's probably about 80%, 75 to 80% of the value, of the original value, and then one year later is another kind of like 65%, and then one year later is like 50%.”
Huang: NVIDIA Hopper performance improved 4x through post-launch software gains
“Hopper improved in performance by us and others by a factor of four. In the time that we shipped it.”
Huang: Half of the world's software developers are based in China
“Half of the world's developers are in China.”
Huang: Nvidia is exploring space data center architectures, which will take years
“We're going to explore what is the architecture of data centers look like in space, and it'll take years.”