The Nvidia CEO founded the trillion-dollar company that has become the world’s engine for AI
As global chipmaker Nvidia continues to power the artificial intelligence revolution, all eyes are on CEO Jensen Huang. The tech billionaire, an Asia’s Most Influential honouree from Taiwan, recently made headlines when, at the 2024 Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Summit, he shared that artificial general intelligence could arrive in five years. However, Huang qualifies that the timeframe only applies if the threshold, such as passing a set of human tests, is specified. AI that truly exhibits human-like cognitive abilities may be further away.
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Still, Huang brings the world closer to the dream of human-level AI, announcing the arrival of the Nvidia Blackwell Platform at the GTC AI conference in March 2024. Answering the need for faster computing, the new platform can lead to breakthroughs in data processing, engineering simulation, quantum computing and more. Of Nvidia’s best and latest technology, Huang simply declares, “We created a processor for the generative AI era.”
Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia, the world’s engine for AI
Jensen Huang, who was born in Taiwan but moved to the US, where he received his degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and his master’s from Stanford University, co-founded chipmaker Nvidia at a Denny’s in 1993. From there, Huang grew Nvidia into a pioneer in accelerated computing, leveraging its graphics processing unit as a catalyst in gaming, graphics and eventually AI. The company’s technologies play a critical role in several frontiers, including autonomous cars, AI factories, AI medical imaging and robotics.
Today, the CEO and president leads Nvidia’s strategy in the creation of next-generation hardware for AI software applications. Already, Nvidia technologies are behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, large-language models used in generative AI and more services by tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Meta and Spotify.