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Time of India
24-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Don't feel sad for my employees, I've created more billionaires on my management team than any CEO, they are doing just ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently said that he has created more billionaires in his management than any CEO in the world. Speaking during an interview with The Hill & Valley Forum, Huang discussed the scale of impact that small, focused teams of AI researchers can have and how Nvidia's success has translated into significant financial rewards for those in leadership. 'I've created more billionaires on my management team than any CEO in the world. They're doing just fine. Don't feel sad for anybody at my layer.' Jensen Huang said. He was responding to a question on the effectiveness and value of smaller AI teams. 'But the important big idea is that the impact of 150 or so AI researchers, with funding behind them, can probably create,' he noted. Jensen Huang gave examples of OpenAI which originally started with around 150 employees and China's DeepSeek which also has a similar workforce. Huang added that there's something unique about well-structured, mid-sized teams when given the right resources. 'That's not a small team. That's a good-size team with the right infrastructure… If you're willing to pay, say, $20 billion, $30 billion to buy a startup with 150 AI researchers, why wouldn't you pay one?' Jensen Huang on personally rewarding high-performing employees by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Up to 70% off | Shop Sale Libas Undo During the interview, the Nvidia CEO also addressed reports that he personally rewards high-performing employees with surprise stock options and RSUs (Restricted Stock Units). When asked if he actually does carry stock options, Jensen Huang joked 'Yeah, I'm carrying it in my pocket right now.' He then explained that he takes a hands-on approach to compensation across the company. 'I review everybody's compensation up to this day… when they present it, and they send me everybody's recommended comp, I go through the whole company. I've got my methods of doing that, and I use machine learning. I sort through all 42,000 employees.' '100% of the time, I increased the company's spend on OpEx [operating expenses]. And the reason for that is because you take care of people, everything else takes care [of itself],' he concluded. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
CNBC
18-07-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Nvidia CEO: If I were a 20-year-old again today, this is the field I would focus on in college
If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were a student today, he says he'd focus on the physical sciences. During a trip to Beijing on Wednesday, Huang was asked by a journalist: "If you are a 22-year-old version of Jensen [who] just graduated today in 2025 but with the same ambition, what would you focus on?" To that, the Nvidia CEO said: "For the young, 20-year-old Jensen, that's graduated now, he probably would have chosen ... more of the physical sciences than the software sciences," adding that he actually graduated two years early from college, at age 20. Physical science, as opposed to life science, is a broad branch that focuses on the study of non-living systems, including physics, chemistry, astronomy and earth sciences. Huang got his electrical engineering degree from Oregon State University in 1984 before earning his master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992, according to his LinkedIn profile. About a year later, in April 1993, Huang co-founded Nvidia with fellow engineers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem over a meal at a Denny's restaurant in San Jose, California. Under Huang's leadership as CEO, the chipmaker has now become the world's most valuable company. Nvidia also became the world's first company to hit a $4 trillion market cap last week. Although Huang didn't explain why he says he'd study the physical sciences if he were a student again today, the tech founder has been very bullish on "Physical AI" or what he calls the "next wave." Over the past decade and a half, the world has moved through multiple phases of artificial intelligence, he explained in April at The Hill & Valley Forum in Washington, D.C. "Modern AI really came into consciousness about 12 to 14 years ago, when AlexNet came out and computer vision saw its big, giant breakthrough," Huang said at the forum. AlexNet was a computer model unveiled during a 2012 competition that demonstrated the ability of machines to recognize images using deep learning, helping spark the modern AI boom. This first wave is called 'Perception AI,' Huang said. Then, came the second wave called "Generative AI," "which is where the AI model has learned how to understand the meaning of the information but [also] translate it" into different languages, images, code and more. "We're now in this age called 'Reasoning AI'... where you now have AI that can understand, it can generate, [and] solve problems and recognize conditions that we've never seen before," he said. Artificial intelligence, in its current state, can solve problems using reasoning. "Reasoning AI allows you to produce a form of digital robots. We call them agentic AI," said Huang. These AI agents are essentially "digital workforce robots" capable of reasoning, he added. Today, AI agents are a key focus among many tech companies, such as Microsoft and Salesforce. Looking ahead, the next wave is "Physical AI," said Huang. "The next wave requires us to understand things like the laws of physics, friction, inertia, cause and effect," said Huang in Washington, D.C., in April. Physical reasoning abilities, such as the concept of object permanence — or the fact that objects continue to exist even if they're out of sight — will be big in this next phase of artificial intelligence, he said. Applications of physical reasoning include predicting outcomes, such as where a ball will roll, understanding how much force is needed to grip an object without damaging it and inferring the presence of a pedestrian behind a car. "And when you take that physical AI and then you put it into a physical object called a robot, you get robotics," he added. "This is really, really important for us now, because we're building plants and factories all over the United States." "So hopefully, in the next 10 years, as we build out this new generation of plants and factories, they're highly robotic and they're helping us deal with the severe labor shortage that we have all over the world," said Huang.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says San Francisco is so back — thanks to AI
Photo: Jemal Countess / Stringer (Getty Images) Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang said AI has revived a dying San Francisco that many thought wouldn't recover from the pandemic. 'It's because of AI that San Francisco is back,' Huang said while speaking to Jacob Helberg, Trump's undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, at The Hill & Valley Forum. 'Anybody who lives in San Francisco, you'll know what I'm talking about. Just about everybody evacuated San Francisco,' he said, 'Now it's thriving again. It's all because of AI.' A 2024 article from The San Francisco Standard called AI companies San Francisco's 'most desired tenants.' It cited a JLL (JLL) report that found AI companies leased north of 1.7 million square feet of office space since 2022, when ChatGPT was released. Chris Pham, senior analyst at JLL, predicted a continued AI boom in the city, likening it to the invention of electricity, instead of just another new industry. In his remarks with Helberg, Huang acknowledged that as AI progresses, 'new jobs will be created, some jobs will be lost, and every job will be changed.' 'It's not AI that's going to take your job. It's not AI that's going to destroy your company,' he said, encouraging widespread adoption of the technology. 'It's the company and the person who uses AI that's going to take your job. And so that's something to internalize.' For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
