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Huang: Restricting US immigration as a China hawk is unpatriotic
“It's almost like a badge of honor. It's a badge of shame. There's no question it's a badge of shame. There's no question that although they want what's in the best interest of our country, and we all want what's in the best interest of our country, destroying …”
Huang: China is 'nanoseconds behind' the US in AI capability
“And three, they're years behind us. Is it two years, three years? Come on, they're nanoseconds behind us.”
Jensen Huang: AI inference demand will scale up by one billion times
“It's gonna go up a billion times.”
Huang: AI inference compute is about to increase by a billion times
“It's about to go up by a billion times.”
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.”
Huang: Inference Compute Demand Will Surge One Billion Times
“It's about to go up by a billion times.”
Huang: OpenAI is likely the next multi-trillion dollar hyperscaler
“I think that OpenAI is likely going to be the next multi-trillion dollar hyperscale company. Hyperscale like, ah, like Meta's a hyperscale. Google's a hyperscale. They're going to have consumer and enterprise services, and, ah, they are very likely going to be…”
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.”
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.”
Huang: Drop in Chinese students staying in US is existential crisis
“Definitely see a greater concern of Chinese students who come here and remain here. And, or many of them who come here for school and are thinking about going elsewhere. Many of them thinking about Europe. And so, so I think we need to be super, super concerne…”
Huang: Decoupling the US and China is entirely the wrong concept
“You can't decouple against the single most The two most important relationships for the next century. That doesn't make any sense at all. Decoupling is exactly the wrong concept.”
Huang: xAI Brought 100,000-GPU Cluster from Delivery to Training in 19 Days
“NVIDIA, NVIDIA's infrastructure and computing infrastructure and all that technology, to training, 19 days.”
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…”
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 …”
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…”
Huang: AI Now Governed by Three Scaling Laws, Not One
“And so thinking, post-training, pre-training, we now have three scaling laws, not one.”
Huang: NVIDIA is partnering directly with OpenAI to self-build infrastructure
“This new partnership is about helping OpenAI, working, partnering with OpenAI to build their own self-build AI infrastructure for the first time. And so this is us working directly with OpenAI at the chip level, at the software level, at the systems level, at …”
Huang: Hyperscalers support NVIDIA's direct purchasing deals with AI labs
“But they would like to have the same direct relationship with us, direct working relationship, and direct purchasing relationship. Meta, just as what Zuck and Meta has with us it's exactly a direct. Our relationship with between us and Sundar and Google, direc…”
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.”
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.”
Huang: Chipmakers must co-design six to eight chips annually to beat wafer costs
“Wafer costs are getting higher, which means that unless you do co-design at an extreme scale, you're just not going to be able to deliver the x-factor growth, number one, number, and so you know, unless you, unless you're working on six, seven, eight chips a y…”
Huang: Operators will reject free AI chips to maximize performance per watt
“So even if they gave it to you for free, you only have two gigawatts to work with, your opportunity cost is so insanely high, you would always choose the best perf per watt.”
Huang: Elon Musk will likely build a gigawatt AI cluster first
“I would not be surprised if he gets to a gigawatt before anybody else does.”
Huang: AI supercomputers are humanity's most complex systems problem ever
“I mean, these are, this is unquestionably the most complex systems problem humanity has ever endeavored.”
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…”
Huang: Nvidia will eventually get the opportunity to compete in China
“These things will get sorted out, and we will have the opportunity to go compete in that China market.”
Huang: $100k H-1B fee might accelerate investment outside the US
“It also has an unintended consequence. It might accelerate investment outside United States.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
Huang: NVIDIA's moat in inference will be greater than in training
“And I'm sure I said it would be greater.”
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 …”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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: GPU makers have no clue how to build accelerated computing
“Somebody who's really, really good at building GPUs have no clue how to be an accelerated computing company.”
Huang: Elon Musk Is Singular in Engineering and Large-Scale Construction
“Elon is singular in this understanding of, Engineering, and construction, and large systems, and marshaling resources.”
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.”
Huang: Scaling large AI training jobs would have failed without Megatron
“Without Megatron. That we developed with some seven years ago now. The scaling of these large training jobs wouldn't have happened.”
Huang: NVIDIA could not design Hopper, Blackwell, or Rubin chips without AI agents
“Our cyber security system today can't run without Without our own agents. We have agents helping to design chips. Hopper wouldn't be possible. Blackwell wouldn't be possible. Ruben don't even think about it.”
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.”
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 …”
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.”
Huang: OCI, OpenAI, and SoftBank have contracted 5 to 7 gigawatts
“The second is the OCI build out. And I think there's some five, six, seven gigawatts about to be built out. And so working with OCI and OpenAI and SoftBank to build that out. Those projects are contracted.”
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.”