Nvidia CEO says his company’s revolutionary AI chip will enable EVERYONE to become a programmer
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang receives a rock star welcome to hometown Taiwan as charismatic founder says his company’s revolutionary AI chip will enable ANYONE to become a programmer – just by SPEAKING to the computer
The founder and CEO of a $1 trillion tech company has unveiled a new AI platform that he says will allow anyone to become a computer programmer just by talking to their software.
Jensen Huang, the 60-year-old chief of chipmaker Nvidia, is only the second American CEO after Jeff Bezos to lead a multi-billion dollar company they co-founded.
Nvidia shares have been on a tear and soared on great sales forecasts due to an explosion of artificial intelligence workloads and components.
Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT on November 30, Nvidia’s value has exploded from around $420 billion to its current level.
On Monday, Huang, who is Taiwanese-American, was greeted enthusiastically at the Computex forum in Taipei, where he was mobbed by people wanting selfies and followed by camera crews everywhere he went.
Jenson Huang, 60, is pictured Monday in his signature leather jacket, speaking at the Computex Forum in Taipei
At the annual meeting, Huang talked about a new AI supercomputing platform called DGX GH200, aimed at building generative AI models – a type of artificial intelligence technology that can produce content including text, images, audio and synthetic data.
Huang said it would make programming accessible to everyone.
“AI is an incredible computer that is very easy to program,” he said.
‘You can speak any language you want, you can even draw pictures. I just turned everyone into a programmer.’
He celebrated the end of what he called the “digital divide.”
‘The programming threshold is very low. We have closed the digital divide. Everyone is a programmer now – you just have to say something to the computer,” he said.
‘Each computer era allowed you to do other things that were not possible before, and artificial intelligence certainly qualifies.
“The speed of progress, because it’s so easy to use, is why it’s growing so fast,” he noted.
“This is literally going to affect every industry.”
Huang’s image was used to promote the annual event and he was mobbed by fans on Monday
The 60-year-old was passionate about the potential of artificial intelligence and said it would end the ‘digital divide’
Nvidia was founded in 1993 in Santa Clara, California and is now valued at $1 trillion
Huang’s wealth has exploded amid an explosion of interest in AI, rising by more than $6 billion to a record $34 billion.
Huang was born in Taiwan but moved to the United States as a child, where he received engineering degrees from Oregon State University and Stanford University.
He co-founded the company in 1993 and continues to lead it as CEO.
On Tuesday, Huang addressed a roundtable and said AI was full of potential and pitfalls.
“We have to take AI security very seriously,” he said Bloomberg.
“Ultimately, AI is a product or a service. All products and services must be regulated and safe.’
He pointed to the huge potential of AI in drug discovery and understanding climate change.