Name: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang On How His Big Bet On A.I. Is Finally Paying Off - Full Interview
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Jensen, thank you so much for being here today.

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And I want to get started just with a question that is

really basic, but I think chips have been in the

ecosystem a lot more lately, and there's people

who probably didn't even really know what a

Can you give me a very basic definition of what

Well, we are a technology company that processes

software. For applications and domains of science that

And so because of what we do, we can make what is

Or we can make something that is very energy

Or we could turn something that costs a lot of money

and make it much more affordable. And so we

created this thing called accelerated computing, and

that was what we pioneered about three decades ago.

And it's taken until now to really take off.

In the early days at Denny's with Chris and Curtis, the

Can you explain what it what your first dream was,

what the vision was, even though now it's come so far

to be this accelerated computing company?

Well, at the time, if you go back 30 years, at the time

The microprocessor was starting to take off.

And there was quite a bit of debate about: what is the

future of computing and how should software be run?

And there was a large camp, and rightfully so, that

believed that CPU or general purpose software was

the best way to go and it was the best way to go for a

long time. We felt, however, that there was a

class of applications that wouldn't be possible without

Or you couldn't make it affordable enough for

And so we started this accelerator company, this

accelerated computing company, to solve those

problems. In the beginning, there weren't that many

applications for it, frankly, and we smartly

chose one particular combination that was a home

run. It was computer graphics, and we applied it

And that combination turned out to have been a giant

industry. And now video games is the largest

industry in the world and the largest entertainment

And it drove our technology for three decades because

making video games more and more realistic, making it

available to more people, took a long time.

And we're still in that journey and frankly,

There are now probably, you know, over a billion gamers

in the world, but there are 8 billion people.

And so it's going to be the largest by far entertainment

industry. And so it turned out to have been a fantastic

And we step-by-step added more and more things that we

could do, to today,  artificial intelligence.

Beyond gaming and graphics, Nvidia has grown immensely.

I think that there's a lot of things people might be

Can you just give a very simple list of some of the

use cases and big name customers that people might

be surprised to hear are powered by Nvidia?

People would probably be surprised that the most

powerful and energy efficient supercomputers in

the world, that are used for molecular dynamic

simulations to climate science research to material

science research to quantum computing research, are

All the way to the other extreme: a whole bunch of

robots that are powered by Nvidia in manufacturing

lines. Self-driving cars that are powered by Nvidia

to the Nintendo Switch that I'm very proud of that's

powered by Nvidia. So we're in very powerful systems and

And probably one of the most talked about systems

today are the systems at the Microsoft Azure data

And the work that we did with OpenAI in the very

I'm going to come back to ChatGPT for sure, but first

I wanted to ask you about betting it all.

This is something that you have not shied away from in

the 30 years since you started the company.

It was maybe seven times that you've been reinvented

and faced, you know, success or utter failure.

Well, we're in a really fast moving industry.

You know, technology is incredible in the sense that

such enormous challenges and problems could be solved

On the other hand, the technology changes.

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