Jensen Huang

12 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 18, 2026 by Jensen Huang · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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May 18, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Huang: AI innovation must be accelerated, not slowed, to improve safety
“There were even attitudes that, that we had to slow down AI innovation, which I believe is exactly the opposite. We had to speed up AI innovation because through innovation, we can make the technology safer, more secure.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 46:40 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Huang: NVIDIA laid off two-thirds of its workforce after Sega pivot
“So anyways, I laid off two thirds of the company.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 20:05 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026
Disclosure
Huang: NVIDIA spent half its remaining cash on a surplus hardware emulator
“And I took half of our company's money, so we were already running on fumes, and so I cut that life short even further, took that money, bought this machine that nobody else wanted to buy, brought it to the company, I said, here we are.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 22:52 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026 negative
What-if
Huang would 'absolutely not' start NVIDIA again if he knew the pain
“The question is, suppose I knew everything then that I now know how hard it is, and all of the pain and suffering and all the embarrassment and humiliation and all the setbacks, and you compress all of that. And you just told that thirty-year-old kid, listen t…”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 57:12 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Huang: NVIDIA refuses to enter markets merely to take market share
“We don't want to dedicate our lives to go work on something that the worlds already have. I don't want our company working on things to capture share from somebody. They built a market. We want to take their share, and so let's go and fight to the bitter end, …”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 41:40 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: Humanity will achieve centuries of technological progress in coming decades
“We will do in the next several decades what it took humanity several hundred years to achieve.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 52:02 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huang: AI will empower new college graduates rather than taking their jobs
“AI is going to help this next generation of new college grads achieve greater things, build greater things, not take their jobs.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 50:33 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026
Disclosure
Jensen Huang describes himself as a 'battlefield CEO' energized by crisis
“The way I'm built is you put me in crisis. Alright, the perfect day is we are in trouble. And you just create the worst possible condition and Jensen, you need, we need you to come and help us think through this. That's my perfect. That's my vibe. Battlefield.…”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 1:02:38 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026
Assertion Supported
Huang: NVIDIA now designs chips with up to a trillion transistors
“At the time, the chip I was working on had a few thousand transistors. And now we design chips that are two hundred billion, a trillion transistors.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 9:51 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Distributing CUDA for free on GPUs severely depressed NVIDIA's gross margins
“The answer was, let's use GeForce, which is the GPU that is now everywhere in the world used for playing video games. And let's have GeForce carry on its back CUDA to every single computer in the world. Now, of course, by doing so, our gross margins would go f…”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 34:13 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Huang is less concerned than most about a hot conflict over Taiwan
“If you ask me, am I concerned about a hot conflict? I'm less concerned than most. But depending on the actions of the leaders, We may cause the hot conflict, and so I am of the opinion that we all must be more long-term minded if we can. We ought to have a mor…”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 53:33 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
May 18, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
AI revolutionized radiology scans, but human radiologist demand has still increased
“AI has now completely revolutionized radiology. Every single radiologist uses AI to Study the scans. It does it incredibly fast, incredibly accurately, better than a human can. However, radiologists' demand has gone up.”
Jensen Huang May 18, 2026 ▶ 48:07 NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
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