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Huang: Physical AI will be NVIDIA's next $100B business within 10 years
“Likely this will be one of the largest industries in the world, and it'll take longer than a couple, two, three years. It'll take less than 10, and so this will be our next hundred billion dollar business.”
Jensen Huang: Starting technology matters less than confronting reality and learning
“And so long as you're able to confront the reality, so long as you are able to learn the technology itself actually doesn't matter.”
Huang: Founders should adapt the organization to themselves, not standard practices
“Whatever it takes to fit the car to you, whatever it takes to fit the organization to you, that's what you ought to do. And the next CEO, whatever the personality is, they can figure it out.”
Huang: 'Founder mode' can scale a company to five trillion dollars
“Founder mode could scale for 34 years. From zero to five trillion.”
Huang: Most software will be built agentically, elevating systems thinking
“In the case of software most software is going to be done agentically anyhow, so you have to be much more able to think abstractly about systems.”
Huang: OpenClaw is an AI Linux moment enabling custom model development
“In a lot of ways, open claw to me was very Linux moment to me. And now everybody can build their own AI.”
Huang: AI automates tasks rather than destroying entire jobs
“The narrative about AI destroying jobs is exactly backwards. AI eliminate tasks. AI automates tasks away. But it doesn't necessarily eliminate jobs. And the reason for that is because the job of a person has a purpose, and that purpose has many tasks. Some of …”
Huang: Robotics had its ChatGPT breakthrough moment years ago
“I would say the chat GPT moment of robots happened a couple of years ago already.”
Huang: Computing technology reset makes this the best time to start companies
“Obviously, this is the greatest time in the last 60 years to start a company. The whole industry has changed. It's a complete reset from a technology perspective. The single most important technology in human history, the computer has been completely reset. An…”
Huang: NVIDIA invented most major computer graphics breakthroughs over 25 years
“We're the world leader in modern computer graphics. We invented most of the major breakthroughs in the last 25 years.”
Huang: NVIDIA succeeded by augmenting CPUs for specific algorithm domains
“The big idea of the company that was spot on is that it is possible to augment the CPU to solve problems that otherwise are too difficult to solve. And molecular dynamics is one of them. Image processing is one of them. Inverse physics is another one. And so a…”
Huang: Controllability is the single biggest breakthrough needed for AI agents
“And so I think controllability is probably the single biggest breakthrough that we need for agents at every single level.”
Huang: Radiology jobs grew 20% over recent years despite AI scan automation
“The task of reading radiology scans has been automated, but the number of radiology jobs has increased some 20% in the last several years, even though AI has taken over the whole field.”
Huang: NVIDIA physical AI and automotive business is near $10 billion
“Our robotics business, autonomous vehicle business, basically physical AI business is probably almost, it's like ten billion dollars, so it's really, really big already.”
Huang: NVIDIA realized AlexNet was a universal method to learn any function
“The breakthrough for us was realizing that AlexNet was not AlexNet. That AlexNet was an approach with deep, deep learning that allows you to learn any function.”
Huang: NVIDIA engineers use autonomous coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor
“We've got cloud code autonomously running in sandboxes all over NVIDIA, and that's really fantastic, and some people use codex, some people use cloud code, some people use cursor, some people use cognition, and we let kind of a thousand flowers bloom, let peop…”
Huang: NVIDIA offered its full engineering workforce to OpenClaw's creator
“And we contacted Peter and we said, Hey, you know, all of the videos engineers are your engineers. That's what I told Peter. You've got this battleship outside your house. You know, break down the problem as you desire, and we'll contribute as you wish.”
Huang: Founders must embrace naive optimism to avoid paralyzing anxiety
“You want your mind to be, how hard can it be? And let the suffering come to you a little bit at a time. You know, don't imagine how hard it's going to be and let all of that turn into anxiety and not doing something about it.”
Huang: Sega contracted NVIDIA to build the console that became Dreamcast
“Sega, ah, had contracted us to build the, ah, game console after Saturn that turned out to have been Dreamcast.”
Huang: NVIDIA went public in 1999 at a $300M valuation
“When NVIDIA went public, our valuation was three hundred million dollars. Three hundred million dollars in 1999.”
Huang: NVIDIA immediately pivoted into vision, robotics, and self-driving after AlexNet
“Almost right away, we started working on computer vision. Almost right away, we started working on robotics self-driving cars”
Huang: NVIDIA must design hardware 5 to 10 years ahead
“We kind of have to live in the future five to 10 years because it takes three or so years just to build a system. It takes a couple of years to ramp it up and you're dealing and you would like them to be able to use the computer for 10 years after.”
Huang: NVIDIA had neural video simulators years before public video models
“Long before the first videos were generated outside that people saw a couple of years earlier inside our labs, we were driving a simulator completely generated by video, and computer, completely generated by neural networks”