Jensen Huang

51 statements across 10 episodes · 41 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Feb 8, 2024 by Aaron Levie · said 150 times in 21 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Feb 8, 2024 neutral
Insight
Levie: AI adoption is bottlenecked by compute costs, not architecture
“So like we're increasingly not limited by the architecture of the technology. And now we're just limited by like, can Jensen make these things cheaper? Can the, you know, can the engineers at open AI have more efficient model algorithms?”
Aaron Levie Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 1:09:53 BG2 with Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & Aaron Levie | Software Valuations, Earnings, Immigration | E02 · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Huang: NVIDIA's moat in inference will be greater than in training
“And I'm sure I said it would be greater.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 16:09 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huang: OpenAI recently decommissioned its Volta GPU infrastructure
“And I think Sam was just telling me that, that they had just decommissioned the Volta infrastructure that they have at OpenAI recently, and so, so I think it's, we leave behind this trail of install base.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 18:12 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024
Disclosure
Jensen Huang: I have 60 direct reports
“I have 60 direct reports.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 1:07:04 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Huang: NVIDIA aims for 50,000 employees and 100M AI assistants
“I'm hoping that NVIDIA someday will be a 50,000 employee company with a hundred million, you know, AI assistants. And they're in every single group.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 1:01:08 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huang: NVIDIA delivers 2x-3x performance and cost improvements every single year
“We're trying to build a brand new one every single year, and every single year we deliver two or three times more performance. As a result, every single year, we reduce the cost by two or three times. Every single year, we improve the energy efficiency by two …”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 23:01 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 positive
Insight
Huang: AI should embrace both open and closed source models
“It is, I believe wrong-minded to be closed versus open. It should be closed and open.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 1:13:49 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2029
Huang: $1T in legacy data center infrastructure must be modernized in 4-5 years
“And we just know that we have a trillion dollars with the data centers that we have to modernize. And so right now as we speak, if we were to have a trajectory over the next four or five years to modernize that old stuff, that's not unreasonable.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 33:23 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: Asynchronous distributed computing and federated learning will be invented for AI
“My sense is that distributed training will have to work. And my sense is that, that distributed computing will be invented. And some form of federated learning and distributed, you know asynchronous distributed computing is going to be discovered.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 51:46 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Huang: NVIDIA never tracks or discusses market share internally
“NVIDIA is a market maker, not share taker. If you look at our company slides, we don't show, not one day does this company talk about market share, not inside.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 27:29 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Prediction Held up
Huang: The AI industry will with certainty require millions of GPUs
“If you just did that math and you compound it with, you add, you compound that with four X per year, On model size and computing size. And then on the other hand, demand continues to grow in usage. Do we think that we need millions of GPUs? No doubt. Yeah, tha…”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 53:15 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: Almost every software application will be highly machine-learned in the future
“Almost every single application, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Premiere, you know, AutoCAD. You give me your favorite application. That was all hand, hand engineered. I promise you it will be highly machine learned in the future.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 32:13 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 positive
Insight
Huang: AI productivity gains lead to higher corporate growth, not layoffs
“The part that is overlooked is when companies become more productive, Using artificial intelligence. It is likely that it manifests itself into either better earnings, or better growth, or both. And when that happens, the next email from the CEO is likely not …”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 1:02:52 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: Personal AGI assistants will arrive soon and improve over time
“Soon in some form. Yeah, soon in some form, and that, that that assistant will get better over time. That's the beauty of technology as we know it, and so, so I think in the beginning it'll, it'll be quite useful but not perfect, and then it gets more and more…”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 2:17 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Insight
Huang: Accelerated parallel computing cannot rely on generic compilers across architectures
“What people don't realize is that you can have, ah, three different ISAs, CPU ISAs, they all have their own C compilers, you could take software and compile down to that ISA. That's not possible in accelerated computing. That's not possible in parallel computi…”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 14:33 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Huang: AI should be regulated at application level by existing agencies
“It's necessary to have regulation for important technologies but it's also don't overreach to the point where some of the regulation ought to be done, or most of the regulation ought to be done at the applications. The FAA, NHTSA, FDA, you name it, right? All …”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 1:11:17 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Huang: Software updates make Hopper GPUs 2x to 4x better over time
“Now, we also put a lot of energy into continuously reinventing new algorithms so that when the time comes, the Hopper architecture is two, three, four times better than when they bought it, so that, that you, that infrastructure continues to be really effectiv…”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 17:41 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: The new market for AI factories will probably reach a few trillion dollars
“So there's a whole layer of computing fabric, a whole layer of what I call AI factories that the world has to make that doesn't exist today at all. So the question is how big is that? Unknowable at the moment, probably a few trillion dollars.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 36:22 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 neutral
Insight
Huang: Parallel processing favors transistor volume over individual transistor speed
“Serial processing requires every transistor to be excellent. Parallel processing requires Lots and lots of transistors to be more cost effective. I'd rather have 10 times more transistors, 20% slower. Than 10 times less transistors, 20% faster.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 13:42 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Insight
Huang: Models built on NVIDIA run on NVIDIA without modification
“If you built it on this architecture, Without any consideration, it will run on this architecture, ok? You could still go and optimize it for other architectures, but at the very minimum, since it's already been architect, you know, built on NVIDIA, it will ru…”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 16:45 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 negative
Opinion
Huang: Moore's law has largely ended
“Moore's law has largely ended.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 34:04 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: People will all become CEOs of AI agents
“And so, so I think that that's the thing that, that people are going to learn is that they're all going to be CEOs. They're all going to be CEOs of AI agents.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 1:07:25 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huang: NVIDIA's Nemotron is the world's best reward model
“Our model, Nemo Tron, is, is the best model in the world for reward systems. And so, it is the best critique.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 1:16:08 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: Huang believes NVIDIA can triple revenue with 25% headcount growth
“He thinks they can three X, you know, the top line of the business while only adding 25% more humans because they can have a 100,000 autonomous agents doing things like building the software, doing the security, and that he becomes really a prompt agent, not o…”
Brad Gerstner Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 2:31 Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Gerstner: xAI's Memphis cluster is the world's largest coherent supercomputer
“It's the single largest coherent supercomputer in the world today, that it's going to get bigger.”
Brad Gerstner Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 28:34 Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Gerstner: xAI built and energized its supercomputer cluster in 19 days
“What would take somebody else years to get permitted, to get energized, to get liquid cool, to get stood up that x.ai did in 19 days”
Brad Gerstner Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 28:19 Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Madra: NVIDIA's internal AI productivity gains for chip design exceed 100%
“I really, you know, been thinking a lot about Jensen's point in the pod about, you know, how much AI they're using internally for design, design verification for all those pieces. Right. And I think, you know, it's not 30%. I actually think sort of that's an u…”
Sunny Madra Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 50:03 Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Dec 23, 2024
Assertion Supported
Gerstner: Jensen projected $1T in new AI and CPU replacement workloads
“And for the first time, he said, not only are we going to have a trillion dollars of new AI workloads over the course of the next four years he said, but we're also going to have a trillion dollars of CPU replacement, of data center replacement workloads over …”
Brad Gerstner Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 17:31 AI Semiconductor Landscape feat. Dylan Patel | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Dec 23, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patel: NVIDIA's Jensen Huang only plans 12 to 18 months ahead
“Well, the funny thing is a lot of people at NVIDIA will say Jensen doesn't plan more than a year or year and a half out. Because they change things and they'll deploy them out that fast, right? No semi, every other semiconductor company takes years to deploy, …”
Dylan Patel Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 12:58 AI Semiconductor Landscape feat. Dylan Patel | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Jan 11, 2025 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Gerstner: Nvidia inference revenue is upwards of 50% of total revenue
“Jensen made, and maybe we'll insert the clip here on the pod, where he talks about his inference revenue is already 50% of his revenue, so already upwards of 50% of his revenue”
Brad Gerstner Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 30:50 Market Predictions, Rates & Inflation, DOGE, CES, AI Compute | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Jan 11, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jensen Huang: AI inference demand will scale up by one billion times
“It's gonna go up a billion times.”
Jensen Huang Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 17:23 Market Predictions, Rates & Inflation, DOGE, CES, AI Compute | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Jun 20, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: Jensen Huang plans to triple Nvidia's size using AI agents
“He said, Brad, I'm going to three X the company and our headcount may not grow or only grow a little bit. And I said, how? He said, because I'm going to have agents who are reporting to me. I'm not going to have employees who are.”
Brad Gerstner Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 50:01 Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. AI, Public & VC Mkts, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & more | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
Aug 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Gerstner: 50% of the world's AI researchers are in China
“Jensen Huang reminded us recently that 50% of the world's AI researchers are in China, and they're indeed innovating and not copying.”
Brad Gerstner Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 11:24 China, China, China. Breaking Down China’s Tech Surge | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Huang: $5 trillion annual global AI infrastructure CapEx is economically plausible
“So if you told me that on an annual basis, the CapEx of the world was about five trillion dollars, I would say the math seems to make sense.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 15:54 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: AI compute glut unlikely until general-purpose computing fully transitions
“Until, until we fully Convert all general purpose computing to accelerated computing in AI until we do that. I think the chances are extremely low.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 22:27 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Huang: Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu plans to 10x data center power by 2030
“Eddie, last night, Eddie Wu at Alibaba said, between now and the end of the year, and excuse me, now and the end of the decade, they're going to increase their data center power by 10 X, right?”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 16:27 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Opinion
Huang: President Trump is right to maximize US tech exports
“I think President Trump's got it right, that we want to maximize exports. We want to maximize American influence around the world. We're supposed to maximize those things.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 1:07:19 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Huang: General-purpose computing is over, replaced by accelerated AI computing
“That general, general purpose computing is over, and the future is accelerated computing and AI computing.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 10:51 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Huang: 100% of NVIDIA engineers and chip designers use AI agents
“Every single software engineer, every single chip designer in our company already has AIs working with them. A hundred percent coverage.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 14:28 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: AI and physical robotics fusion will be solved within five years
“In the next five years, one of the things that, that is really cool that's going to get solved is the fusion of artificial intelligence and mechatronics, robotics.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 1:39:21 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Huang: NVIDIA is comfortable with low Wall Street consensus estimates
“Look, we're comfortable with that. Beating the numbers on a regular basis.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 9:22 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huang: Hyperscalers have consistently underforecasted GPU demand for years
“Now what's, what's going on, of course, is that every one of their forecasts that they provide us, it turns out to have been wrong. Because they under forecasted, and so now we're always in a scramble mode, and so we've been in the scramble mode now for, you k…”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 24:35 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Huang: NVIDIA does not force customers into bundled full-rack systems
“We don't require anybody to buy everything from us. We don't require that they buy the full rack. They could buy a chip. They could buy a component. They could buy our networking. They could buy our, we have customers buying only our CPU. You know, just buy ou…”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 56:26 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: OpenAI and xAI will likely consume compute capacity internally
“I think they'll likely use it themselves and just in the case of X, they'll likely use it themselves.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 8:00 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Huang: NVIDIA is hiring across the board as AI boosts productivity
“My engineers, every one of them use AIs continuously, and we're hiring more engineers, we're hiring more people, we're hiring across the board. The reason for that is because we have more ideas. We can now go pursue more ideas. The reason for that is because o…”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 1:35:53 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Huang: OpenAI has 800 million active users
“OpenAI has eight hundred million active users.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 1:35:15 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huang: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is actively accelerating US tech exports
“Secretary Lutnik was all over it.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 1:07:41 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Opinion
Huang: Every country must develop sovereign AI capabilities
“And so I think that, that every country needs to have some sovereign capability. I recommend that they all use OpenAI, they all use Gemini, they all use, you know, these, Open models. You use Grok, and I think they, I recommend they all do that. I recommend th…”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 1:01:14 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: Risk of an AI Compute Glut Is Extremely Low Until Transition Completes
“Until we fully Convert all general purpose computing to accelerated computing and AI until we do that. I think the chances are extremely low.”
Jensen Huang Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 20:42 AI Bubble, Stablecoin Boom, and Runnin' Down a Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Jun 11, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Huang: xAI Brought a 100k GPU Cluster Online in 19 Days
“Just to put in perspective, a 100,000 GPUs, that's You know, easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet as one cluster. A supercomputer, ah, that you would build would take normally three years to plan. And then they deliver the equipment, and it takes one…”
Jensen Huang Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 14:24 The SpaceX IPO, Fable 5, AI Capex Update & Market Check w/ Gavin Baker, Andrew Fox & Clark Tang · Bg2 Pod
Jun 11, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baker: Musk builds data centers faster than anyone at 122 days
“We do know from Jensen that Elon brings data centers up faster than anyone, a 122 days.”
Gavin Baker Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 3:50 The SpaceX IPO, Fable 5, AI Capex Update & Market Check w/ Gavin Baker, Andrew Fox & Clark Tang · Bg2 Pod
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