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Huang: AI labs will prove extremely profitable within months
“I believe within months you're going to realize that these companies are extremely profitable.”
Jensen Huang Calls AI Existential Threats and Job Destruction Claims Ridiculous
“On the other hand scaring people with things like saying nonsensical things, which are not gonna happen, that this is an existential threat to humanity. There's 20% chance that is existential. That's ridiculous. That it's gonna wipe out 50% of new college grad…”
Huang: Forcing open-source AI onto foreign tech stacks harms US interests
“It would be extremely foolish to create two ecosystems, the open source ecosystem, and it only runs on the Chinese tech, a foreign tech stack, and a closed ecosystem, and that runs on the American tech stack. I think that that would be a horrible outcome for t…”
Jensen Huang: Notion That AI Will Replace Software Companies Is Illogical
“There's this notion that the tool in the software industry is in decline. And we've replaced by AI. You could tell because there's a whole bunch of software companies whose stock prices are under a lot of pressure because somehow AI is going to replace them. I…”
Huang: AI customers are fastest growing tech companies in history
“These are the fastest growing technology companies in history.”
Huang: $500B was invested globally into AI startups over six months
“This last six months, the world put in about five hundred billion dollars in AI startups.”
Huang: China produces at least 60% of mainstream chips
“They manufacture 60% of the world's mainstream chips, maybe more.”
Huang: China has 50% of global AI researchers
“As you know, most of the AI researchers in all of these AI labs, most of them are Chinese. They have 50% of the world's AI researchers”
Jensen Huang: A $500K engineer must consume $250K in AI tokens
“If that 500,000 dollar engineer did not consume At least 250,000 dollars worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed.”
Jensen Huang: Software developers will write architectures instead of code
“In the future, in the past, we code. In the future, we're gonna write Ideas, architectures, specifications. We're going to organize teams. We're going to help them define how to evaluate the definition of good versus bad.”
Jensen Huang: Nvidia Will Build Orbital Data Centers in Space
“In the future, we'll also build data centers. In the, in space. Obviously, very complicated to do so. We have, we're working with our partners on a new computer called Vera Rubin Space One, and it's going to go out to space and start data centers out, out in s…”
Huang: Nvidia never promised $100B in one OpenAI round
“No, we never said we were going to invest a hundred billion dollars in one round. That never was said.”
Huang: Nvidia will likely make its largest investment ever in OpenAI
“We will definitely be involved in their next, in their round. We will invest a great deal of money. Probably the largest investment we've ever made.”
Huang: AI supply constraints will persist across chips, power, and construction
“We're gonna be constrained for some time and pretty much across the board from chips to memories to packaging to systems photonics, connectors, land, power, construction workers, the whole thing.”
Huang: NVIDIA is not an interchangeable car company, rejects 'loser premise'
“You're not talking to somebody who woke up a loser, and that loser attitude, that loser premise makes no sense to me. We are not, we're not a car. We are not a car.”
Jensen Huang: Sold Nvidia stock at a $300M valuation to buy parents a car
“My only regret was at the IPO, after the IPO, I wanted to buy my parents something nice, and so I sold NVIDIA stock at a valuation of three hundred million dollars. The company was at a valuation of three hundred million dollars, and I bought them a Mercedes S…”