Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed his company’s vision for the AI-powered future.
During his opening speech at the Nvidia GTC 2024 event in San Jose, Huang unveiled a huge range of announcements, covering everything from powerful new chips to the omniverse and even humanoid robots.
And with its astonishing recent rise as the company behind much of the AI revolution, Huang was unsurprisingly optimistic about the role Nvidia can play in the future.
The “soul of Nvidia”
“There is definitely something going on,” Huang said after taking the stage to a rapturous welcome from more than 10,000 keynote attendees. “The computer is the most fundamental part of society today.”
Referring to the tremendous growth in AI innovation in recent months and years, Huang noted, “It’s a whole new category… it’s unlike anything we’ve ever done before.”
“A new industry has emerged… but we need to accelerate an entire industry.”
And to power this new industry? A new kind of chip – powered by Nvidia’s simply stunning Blackwell. With vastly improved computing power, efficiency and productivity, Blackwell is ready to power the next generation of technology.
“Accelerated computing has reached the tipping point of running out of general-purpose computing,” Huang said.
“We need a different way to use computers – so we can continue to scale, so we can continue to reduce the cost of computers, so we can continue to consume more and more computers while being sustainable. Accelerated computing is a dramatic acceleration over general computing, in every single sector.”
“Blackwell is just going to be a great system for generative AI… in the future, data centers will be seen as AI factories,” Huang said. “Their purpose in life is to generate income, in this case intelligence.”
“Building basic models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems we need to solve in AI today,” Huang said, adding that “the enabling technologies are coming together to allow leading roboticists around the world to make giant leaps towards artificial general robotics.”
“The entire industry is gearing up for Blackwell,” Huang concluded. “The soul of Nvidia – the intersection of computer graphics, physics, artificial intelligence… it’s all manifested in this moment.”