Morgan Stanley TMT Conference 2026 | Jensen Huang on AI, Compute, Tokens and the New Global Economy
1315 segments
No music, no walk-on music.
No roaring applause.
I'm just saying that
I'm not used
to coming to work in this way.
This total silence.
I'm just kidding.
There were a lot of Taylor Swift comments
along the way,
so the crowd is ready.
This conference needs humor too.
Is humor allowed here?
Humor is very allowed.
I made investment
banking jokes yesterday Jensen but,
thank you for being here for the last
I think, 25-27 years.
You've been such a great supporter
of this conference.
I think we sometimes become numb
to the scale of the numbers
and the transformation
we're experiencing.
I don't think I'm
the only one in this audience.
I'm getting billions and trillions
confused constantly.
My partner,
Mark Edelstone and I,
27 years ago we sat on a stage
much smaller than this one on the
Morgan Stanley trading floor
and we announced
and introduced Nvidia and you
to the Morgan Stanley sales force
and believe it or not
$48 million IPO,
1998 revenue.
Trailing revenue: $30 million.
Jensen and his team, Colette,
were so generous two years ago,
you hosted our board meeting
in your headquarters.
I think you had just announced
a $30 billion quarter,
in terms of revenue
and then last week
a $46 billion net income quarter,
so we moved from years to quarters,
from millions to billions.
It's really amazing, an unprecedented
scale and growth.
And then you changed our lives.
You changed our lives,
and so I guess my question after that is
what had to come together strategically,
culturally, technically to deliver
that type of hypergrowth at scale?
And the scale is really astounding.
And again, thank you.
That's going to take 37 minutes
and 13 seconds.
Slightly more.
You know, obviously
Nvidia wasn't built overnight.
It's taken us 33 years.
I sort of remember
somehow that when we went public
our price was $13
and I just read here it's $12.
I overstated it, I remembered it
to be much more
optimistically than it was actually.
The company's valuation at the time,
I think was like $300 million.
And,
Mark did such a good job, Mark Edelstone,
did such a good job preparing
all of our investors
that they really only had one question.
It was literally a
one-question IPO roadshow
and the question was
when are you going out of business?
I'm not kidding.
and that exact question
is about as hard to answer
as the one you just gave me.
Well, the answer is
the answer is, as it turns out,
we started the company with the idea
of creating a new computing platform,
a new way of doing computing
and not that the old way was wrong,
it's just that the new way,
a new way is essential
to solve some unique problems
and the type of things that we were
extremely good at are algorithms,
algorithms, because the inner loop
of the software tends to be about 5%
of the code but 99% of the compute time.
And back then, the algorithms
in the world of computers was quite rare
and one of the most important algorithms
was computer graphics.
The simulation of light
and how light travels
through space.
And so,
while computer graphics
was used for things like animation movies,
animation movies of course,
at the time that we were founded,
the cover of
I forget which magazine was,
you know, Jurassic Park was there.
And so it was really,
it was during that time
where computer graphics was becoming
more capable
and we could simulate, you know,
virtual reality with it
and we applied it to creating a new industry,
which did not exist at the time, called
video games.
And so 3D graphics was...
it modernized in my time,
consumerized in my time and,
and the whole video game
industry was created in my time.
And when I say in my time,
meaning it was, it was Nvidia
that pulled it all together.
The reason why we're so beloved
in the video game industry
and we're so deep in it still
is beginning in a lot of ways
we created the modern video game industry.
From the algorithms associated with the
the libraries, you know, the,
in the computer graphics industry,
without RTX there would be nothing today.
Without our contribution of all the algorithms
that goes into all of the game engines,
you wouldn't be able to enjoy
the type of video games
you enjoy today.
So Nvidia has been deep in the world
of algorithms since day one,
33 years ago.
Now,
accelerated computing requires
what is described as a full stack,
meaning the architecture,
the chip design,
the libraries that sit on top of it,
how it's integrated forwardly,
you know, I'm using the...
apparently there's this new idea
called forward deployed engineers
or something like that.
Nvidia's had dev tech engineers 33 years ago.
We deployed them into
the world's video game industries
and video game companies
and game engines,
and we integrate our technology
into their game engine.
Today,
if you look at Epic's Unreal Engine,
Nvidia's technologies
all over it.
And,
you go into every game
developer Nvidia's technologies
all over it.
That's the reason
why all the games
run best on Nvidia.
For good reason.
That's the reason
why Nvidia is the world's
largest game platform.
You probably don't know this,
but there's several hundred million
active GeForce gamers in the world.
Many of them turned into AI researchers,
is because of GeForce GTX 580 that
you know, that,
Ilya Sutskever and,
Alex Krizhevsky and Jeff Hinton,
it was Jeff that told him to go buy it,
to discover CUDA.
And so,
the first idea about Nvidia
is that we're a full stack company.
The second idea about our company,
and this is,
you know, really old history that
many people might not have been born yet,
but during that time,
the PC architecture was incompatible
with today's
computer graphics capabilities.
And we created some new technology
called Direct Nvidia.
It was a way for applications
to directly communicate with
our APIs.
And, we exposed it to
some very important companies.
It became DirectX .
If you look at the way that we
communicate between us
and the application,
that was completely
revolutionary to bypass
a whole bunch of software
that makes it slow
to make accelerated computing possible.
We introduced the idea of virtualized
frame buffer memory into system memory.
It was initially called AGP,
which then became PCI Express.
Many of the system architecture
had to be reinvented
so that we could accommodate
video games and 3D graphics in a PC.
Well, that same sensibility of both
innovating the full stack
to be integrated into algorithms,
as well as changing
the architecture of systems
so that we could create
new computer systems,
led to that same sensibility
expertise led to DGX-1,
which was the world's first
AI supercomputer that delivered,
you know, by hand to San Francisco
here, and very close by to a company
that eventually became OpenAI.
And so the the fundamental attitude,
if you will, expertise,
how we see the world,
propagated in this way.
It's literally 33 years.
The company's entire
culture is designed to be full stack.
The organization is designed
to be full stack.
The entire system is designed
to create new stacks
and new system architectures
that allow us to do this.
While we started with,
of course,
if you look at Nvidia's graphics cards,
GeForce, it's a technology marvel.
How it's integrated
into the operating system,
how it's integrated
into the system architecture,
completely reinvented
how computers worked before.
Well, we have no trouble with that
with DGX-1.
I've no trouble with that
with the first supercomputing cluster,
which then went to Satya,
for their first supercomputer.
And you might,
you know, people noticed
that Microsoft's first supercomputer
and Nvidia's supercomputer had exactly
the same benchmark, like down to the...
you measure the performance of the system
across all of these GPUs.
That was about 10,000 GPUs or so.
It was exactly the same performance
and the reason for that
is because we designed it
and we delivered to to Azure Cloud,
it was all based on
InfiniBand, was all
based on Ampere 8 - this is the A100,
which became the first computer
that OpenAI used.
And so we're quite comfortable with this
full stack, full system approach.
And without being able to do that,
it is impossible
to stay at the bleeding edge.
It is literally impossible
to keep up with a company
that's building
not just one chip each year,
but we're building
an entire infrastructure each year
because we own the CPU,
we revolutionize
the new way of designing CPUs.
And you'll see
more examples of that.
We revolutionize the way we do CPUs,
revolutionized the way we obviously do
GPUs, connect them together
using this thing called NVLink,
which revolutionized
the way you built computers all together.
Connected together with a new type of
AI Ethernet called Spectrum X.
We connected everything together.
Now we own the entire stack.
We know all the chips inside.
When you own the entire stack
and you own all the chips inside,
you could change it every single year.
If you don't own the entire stack
and you don't own other chips,
it's hard to
innovate every year.
And the reason for that
is because you're connecting
too many cats and dogs,
and there's too much innovation
to pull together once a year
if you can't control it
because it's a full stack problem.
So that's how we got here.
It's amazing.
in the last two years
since you were here last
and our board meeting,
we've sort of gone
from generative AI models to reasoning.
And now agentic and Satya
just finished a panel on the enterprise.
And at the enterprise level,
you know, we're working with Microsoft,
the OpenAI, X AI, Gemini.
The capabilities are extraordinary.
What does it mean around
the size of that enterprise market?
How is it changing?
And how is it going to be adopted?
And how do you sort of
see that playing out, over the years?
Because it's a big,
big topic of the company.
Yeah. Really good.
Literally in the last two years,
we went through three
inflection points in AI.
The first inflection point,
first of all, the technology
sat there in plain sight for months.
GPT-3 sat there in plain sight
for months until somebody wrote
essentially a wrapper around it
and turned it into ChatGPT,
turned it into an API.
Made it available and
easy to use by everybody.
But the first inflection point
was generative. As you mentioned,
the ability to translate,
convert information from one form
to another form,
and auto regressively generate tokens.
And the second...
But of course, the problem
with generative AI
is that it's prone to hallucinate.
And the reason for that is because,
not because there's something fundamentally
wrong with the technology,
not because
it didn't learn all the right things,
but because it's not grounded
on contextual information.
It's not grounded
on relevant information.
And so,
the second thing that happened was O1
and reasoning came about, but behind
O1 is also grounding on research,
grounding on truth.
And, the ability to have to combine
generative with semantic,
we call it retrieval augmented generation.
But basically conditional generation.
Conditional generation,
meaning that what you're about
to generate depends on context
and ground truth or whatever
research or whatever it is.
And so the second generation,
introduced reasoning, self-reflection,
the ability to self-correct,
because sometimes
what comes out of your mouth,
you kind of wish
you pull back and you go “oh”, you know,
and so in the case of AI,
it has the ability to do that in real time.
And so,
O1 became much more grounded
and the information that was generated
was more reliable.
So what happened?
What came out as a curiosity
and incredible excitement,
and the tech industry
jumping on to it because we realized
what's about to, what can happen
the next phase of it,
the usefulness of ChatGPT
just skyrocketed.
But the amount of tokens
that it generated was much,
much more than the first generation.
Maybe, you know,
A hundred times more tokens.
The model was maybe ten times larger.
So it's probably something
like a thousand times more compute.
So from from O1 over ChatGPT
call it a thousand times.
And then because it was so useful,
maybe a million times more usage.
Okay.
So the combination of usage,
and its usefulness,
and groundedness, allows us to...
we saw that next phase of growth.
But in the end, what O1 did
was it provided information
essentially, a chatbot that was,
much more, much more factual.
It was informational.
And of course, for many of us,
we use it for research
and we use it all the time,
instead of searching,
you know, our goal is in the search,
our goal is to get answers.
And so, ChatGPT gave us that.
That was kind of the second
inflection.
The inflection that
we're seeing here also sat in plain
sight for quite a long time.
And,
it's basically the ability
for AI to use files, access files
and use tools.
And so now it could reason,
it could think,
it could use tools,
it could solve problems
and it could do search,
it could do planning. And so,
probably the, the biggest
phenomenon that's happening.
And if you're paying attention to it,
I’m sure you are, OpenClaw is
probably the single most important
release of software,
you know, probably ever.
And if you look at OpenClaw,
and the adoption of it, you know,
Linux took
some 30 years to reach this level.
OpenClaw in, what is it,
three weeks, has now surpassed Linux.
It is now the single most downloaded
open source software in history.
And it took three weeks.
If you look at the line
and even in semi log,
this thing is straight up.
It's vertical.
It looks like the,
it looks like the, the Y axis.
I've never seen anything like it.
Okay.
It literally looks like the Y axis.
And so what's happening now?
You could give a problem statement,
“Create”... start with the...
the prompt goes “create.”
You know, the last prompt,
the way you kind of think about it,
the last prompt was,
what is? when is? who is? right?
That's the last prompt.
This prompt goes
“create”, “do”, “build”, ”write”
Does that make sense?
So what's happened?
The last prompt was queries.
This prompt are actions, they're tasks.
Do something for me,
and you describe it as you know
expressively as you like,
as with a lot of intention,
you know,
and let it infer or very specific
and it goes off and it just churns,
It just thinks it goes off.
And it does research and it reads
it reads a manual.
If it has to use a tool,
it's never used it before,
it reads the manual of the tool.
It goes off and studies
what's on the web and it,
you know, applies the tools
and performs the task.
Now, I just said, we went from one,
you know, one generative prompt,
one generative response to now one
that is a thousand times more tokens
and agents,
we call them at the company “claws.”
These “claws” are now consuming, what,
a million times more tokens?
They're running continuously in the background.
We have a whole bunch of “claws”
in the company,
and, they're all continuously running,
doing things for us, writing,
developing tools, developing software.
And so now the question is the implication,
the amount of compute in our company,
that we need is just got skyrocketed.
The amount of compute
every company needs is skyrocketing.
So in that context,
I think over the last few days,
it's come out
certainly at Morgan Stanley as a user,
maximum bullish on tokens,
maximum bullish on doing and creating.
It does require the compute
you just mentioned.
And the question is around the financing
and the CapEx around that to support
that extraordinary large compute.
How does it all get financed, as you see it,
from a sort of top of the ecosystem?
And how do the factory,
AI factory economics
play out and evolve?
Yeah, so there's a couple of thoughts
that's really important.
Remember,
I appreciate you using the word factory.
You know, several years ago
I described that
these new these data centers,
what people call data
centers, is not for storing data
as in a data center.
They are producing tokens.
And so, a facility, a plant
with the fundamental purpose of
of producing tokens is a factory.
It's an AI factory
and at the time people said, Jensen,
that sounds so grungy.
You know, it's clean and,
but it produces tokens,
and nobody likes to build data centers
because,
you know, who knows what,
what kind of return
you're going to get on a data center.
But everybody loves building factories.
And the reason for that
is because factories make money.
And we now know
for certain
that these factories
directly generate tokens
and these tokens are monetizable.
And the more compute you have,
the more tokens you can produce.
The more tokens you produce,
the greater your top line.
We now know for certain.
We now know for certain that companies'
revenues are directly correlated
to compute.
And we know that for a fact,
It's no different than Mercedes
being factory limited
or any company being factory limited.
And so if they had more compute
in their factories,
they will have higher revenues.
If OpenAI right now
had more compute,
they will have higher revenues.
And so, the first thought is that
compute equals revenues.
Now the big idea of course is
compute equals GDP.
That we also know compute equals
a country's GDP.
And so that's one thought.
The second thought,
the reason why Nvidia is so successful
is because we engineered these systems
full stack end to end,
and they're architected
from the ground up to generate tokens
at incredible effectiveness.
Nvidia's tokens per watt
is an order of magnitude,
an order of magnitude
ahead of the competition.
Alternative. Tokens per watt.
Now, what does that mean?
Remember, your factory has one gigawatt,
and if your tokens per watt
is ten times the alternative,
your revenues are ten times
the alternative.
For the very first time in history,
the computer architecture chosen
in a factory, in a company's factory
must go through CEO review.
No question about it.
That company only has a gigawatt
or 2.3 gigawatts for next year.
If they put the wrong system inside,
it will affect their revenues
the next year.
I promise you that.
And we see it.
And so our architecture
being so advanced now
and pulling further
and further ahead,
you know, those are probably one
of the most exhaustive
benchmarking done,
is by a firm called Semi Analysis.
And they declared,
they declared Nvidia inference king,
inference king. Inference
as tokens per second, tokens per watt.
It's about generating tokens
and tokens per dollar.
When our performance per watt or per
anything is so much ahead
of the competition or the alternative.
Our tokens per dollar is also the best,
which means we're the cheapest tokens
you can produce today
not even close
an order of magnitude better
and so that's the second thought.
The second big idea for AI
is AI is a factory,
because factories are
power limited always.
It doesn't matter
how many plants you have,
each plant is still 100 megawatts or gigawatt
and therefore tokens per watt
is the single most important thing
for the top line of companies.
And they have to make those decisions
very, very carefully.
You know, it's no longer
just about PowerPoint slides.
You're not going to go put $50 billion
down on some of these PowerPoint slides.
So the token demand is extraordinary,
as you just mentioned,
you're seeing it in your numbers.
Right?
I think I mentioned
$46 billion in net income.
But $70 billion.
if you were going to ask me something
about how to fund it,
can I just tell you how to fund it?
First of all,
I just told you.
I just told you,
the reason why you have to build these
factories in the future
is because you either
you just believe
that one, software is important.
And so I hope this audience
believes software is important.
Software runs the world.
First thought.
The second idea is this:
there will be no software in the future
that's not agentic.
Do you guys agree with that?
How could you have software that's dumb.
And so it is absolutely true
that every software company
will become an agentic company.
They're going to simultaneously use,
open models.
Okay.
Open models
meaning the ones that they
download themselves
and they fine tune themselves.
They're also going to use closed models.
The combination of all that, just like we
in all of our companies,
we have employees that we hire,
we have employees that we're grooming.
we have contractors that we bring in.
We have specialists like yourself
that we bring in to the company
just to do our work.
Our job is not to do the job.
Our job is to have the job be done.
That's what every company does.
And so therefore every company
will realize that
these AI models, some of it you rent,
some of it you build.
That's not illogical,
just like biological workers,
you will do that with digital workers.
And so every single software
company in the future
will no longer just rent tools,
but they'll rent also
experts to use the tools.
They'll not just rent tools,
but rent experts that use those tools
because their agents
are going to be extremely good
at using their specialized tools.
And so every single software company -
the IT industry is a couple trillion dollars?
- today they're tool renters in the future,
they will of course have,
they'll rent agents that use those tools,
which means that the software industry
in the future
will be much larger
than the software industry of today.
You pick your favorite software companies,
and I can imagine a much, much larger
future for them.
Cadence is going to be much larger.
Synopsis is going to be much larger.
Siemens is going to be much larger
in the future,
but their business profile will change
because today
they're basically a software
licensing company.
In the future,
they will also rent tokens,
specialized tokens,
which also means
that that $2 trillion industry
today with no token consumption
in the future
will be extraordinary token consumers.
That's where that money
is going to come from.
They're all of those software industry, IT
industry of today,
not the enterprise
companies, the
IT industry alone
is going to shift an enormous...
it is going to consume
enormous amounts of tokens in the clouds.
And they're either open models or...
So that extraordinary token economy
is facing some constraints.
So we've got memory constraints.
We've got power permitting constraints.
I was in Texas with builders.
We have electrician constraints.
How do you see that playing out?
Satya raised it in the last session.
You're closer to it.
And also if it takes a little longer,
is it still okay
or is it really negative if we just
if the if the cycle on
building this extraordinary.
I love constraints. I love constraints.
And the reason for that
is because in a world of constraint,
you have no choice
but to choose the best.
You can't squander your choice
if the data centers,
if the land power and shell is constrained,
you're not going to randomly
put something in there
just to try it out,
you're going to put something
that you know for certain
is going to deliver the tokens per watt
that you know for certain
is going to allow you from the moment you
you secure the capacity,
we're going to be able
to stand up an entire factory for you,
we are the only company in the world
that can come into your company
and help you stand up
an entire AI factory, you know, so
anybody here that needs an AI factory
and you need, you know, I'm happy to help.
You call one person,
and now one person comes in
and next thing you know,
you're in the AI factory business, okay?
And so we have the expertise.
We know the architecture works.
We know there's enormous demand
for the architecture.
You know,
after you're done standing it up
so we can help you get into business.
And so when you're constrained that way,
you have no choice
but to make the best choice,
because your
revenues next
year is directly correlated to it.
And this is one of those questions
now for all the CEOs
that are in the clouds,
that are cloud service
providers or software providers.
If they make poor choices,
this is no different than me
choosing the wrong foundry.
This is no different than me choosing,
you know,
the wrong memory, the wrong anything.
Because I have so little...
everything is so constrained.
If I choose poorly,
my revenues are affected,
everything is affected.
And so they can't choose,
they can't choose poorly.
The second thing is,
you know, Nvidia is,
as you mentioned,
working at such a large scale,
our supply chain,
one of the things
that we do with our money, of course,
is to secure our supply chain.
One of the things that we do with
our capital is to secure our supply chain,
so that
when Satya asked me to help him
stand up a few gigawatts,
the answer is no problem.
And the reason for that is
I got all the memories,
I got all the wafers,
I got all the CoWoS,
I got all the packaging,
I got all the systems,
I've got all of the connectors,
I got all the cables,
you know, everything from copper
to multilayer ceramic capacitors,
everything is secured.
That's one of the reasons why Nvidia's
balance sheet
being strong is so strategic.
A strong balance sheet
today is not only helpful,
it's strategic.
And so you look at the amount of revenues
we're shipping into.
Just look backwards
and look at the amount of
supply chain capacity
we had to go secure
or that they have to believe,
you know, if you set up a factory,
a plant, a DRAM plant,
and I come in and say, you know what,
go ahead and set up the DRAM plant
because I'm going to use it.
That goes a long ways.
You might as well take that to the bank
as many of them have.
And so,
and so I think the,
the fact that everything is scarce
is fantastic for us.
And I think it does create duration,
which I think is extraordinarily
powerful for you.
I think just another layer,
which is the ecosystem.
You're one of the great
you are the greatest cash flow
generating company in history.
And then you've taken that capital
and really created,
it feels like
stability, diversity in the ecosystem.
And so how do you think about that
in both a financial
and a strategic context as you build?
I think both duration and durability
in the entire ecosystem.
Yeah.
You know, when Mark took me public,
I think
it was probably, you know, a little bit
less energetic than I was
delivering it just now.
But I am fairly certain
I said all the same things.
Nvidia has been building.
Remember, accelerated
computing requires
that I build an ecosystem.
You can't just take code and C-compile it
and it works.
There's no such thing
as a universal
accelerated computing system.
Accelerated computing is,
by definition, proprietary.
There is nothing about our architecture
that is compatible with somebody else's.
It's just not.
The instruction set is different.
The architecture is different.
The micro architecture is different.
Everything is different.
And so we hide it underneath,
you know, these things
in such a way that that makes
it makes you feel like.
And because of Nvidia
we accelerate everything
from data processing,
molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics,
particle systems,
you know, biology, chemicals, you know,
all the way to deep learning, right?
Robotics,
you know, long sequence, spatial 3D,
you name it, right.
It sounds like a five-layer cake,
sounds like a five-layer cake.
It's a five-layer cake, right? Exactly.
But because we've been working on it
so long,
it looks like everything's accelerated.
But it's not true.
It's because I did it one
at a time, one domain at a time,
that all of the important
domains in the world
are now fully accelerated.
And so the thing that we do
on the supply chain side,
our balance sheet is incredibly valuable
because it provides security
for our customers.
On the upstream side,
I’m cultivating new ecosystems
for the future.
All these AI natives
that I'm investing in,
the companies are partnering with,
these are expanding,
extending the CUDA ecosystem.
100% of everything that we do
is on top of CUDA.
Every investment that we've made
is on top of CUDA.
So recently
there was a question about,
are we going to invest
$100 billion in OpenAI?
We just... just for everybody's
update.
We finalized our agreement.
We're going to invest
$30 billion in OpenAI.
I think the opportunity to invest $100
billion in OpenAI is probably
not in the cards.
And the reason for that is
because they're going to go public.
And so I'm fairly
sure that if we provide the capacity
they need,
which the compute capacity
they need, which
we're ramping up hard to go do,
the revenues will more than follow
and they're going to go public
towards the end of the year.
And so
this might be the last time
we'll have the opportunity
to invest in a consequential,
you know, in a company like this.
And speaking of that,
one of the things that I wanted
to make sure I told you guys at this time
and something new
that you probably haven't internalized,
you see all the news,
you probably have internalized,
some of the
the really great work
that we did last year,
the last year and a half or so,
last year or so,
we expanded,
we expanded,
OpenAI's capacity
from Azure
to OCI
to now AWS.
We expanded
OpenAI's reach of capacity to AWS.
We're ramping AWS like mad.
We're ramping them as hard as we can
so that OpenAI has access
to even more capacity.
But the amount of capacity
that we're going to bring online
for them, you know, supporting,
supporting their revenues,
their quality of revenues are so good.
We just need a lot more capacity
for them.
So I think that
this is something
that is somewhat new.
And of course,
the third thing that happened
is a brand new
AI lab flashed into the world.
Isn't that right?
I don't know, we just mentioned them.
A brand new lab came into the world,
and they're in a need
a few million GPUs, and that's MSL.
And so the MSL is a net
new on top of Meta.
So we've we've worked with Meta
a long time.
MSL is a net new on top of Meta.
And so,
our demand profile, went from
being incredibly high
to higher than that.
Speaking of,
speaking more than that,
there's Waymos everywhere.
I want to walk my new dog with the
my new robot, physical AI
could be the next place.
How does that take TAM and tokens
to a whole other level at Nvidia?
Yeah, that's really great.
That's really great.
AI is all the stuff
that we're doing inside the building.
But obviously,
obviously, ultimately
the largest industries
are outside the building.
And that AI needs to be, needs
to have,
physical awareness,
physical understanding,
you know, causality.
You push a bottle,
it falls over and understands
gravity, understands collision,
you know, understands inertia.
Understand those two things, okay.
And, understand,
for example, object permanence.
Yeah.
I take this and I put it behind my chair
in your mind, you can't see it,
but you realize it hasn't disappeared.
Okay, so object permanence thing,
things like that, that affects,
physical behavior and
physical intelligence,
you know, fairly importantly.
And so,
you probably also don't know this,
that Nvidia
is the frontier of physical AI.
Cosmos is the most downloaded physical
AI model in the world.
Nvidia is also the frontier
of autonomous AI.
Two versions.
Autonomous vehicle called Alpamayo.
Look it up. Number one downloaded,
and then the next one, Gr00t.
Human or robotics physical AI.
We are at the frontier
on all three of those.
We're also at the frontier
of digital biology AI.
Look up La-Proteina
incredibly successful,
La-Proteina for digital biology.
There's a whole bunch of other models
Gr00t, N2, is now the number one
most downloaded
human robotics model in the world.
And so we are at the frontier
of physical AI.
Physics, laws of physics, multi physics.
Earth-2.
We're at the frontier of
physical AI, that is physical AI and AI physics
and so this whole area of physical AI
Nvidia defines the frontier.
It is completely open.
We open it because we want to enable
every company,
new or old industry to be able
to take advantage of this capability.
And we've got the whole stack
and the necessary computers for you to
advance the AI for your own use,
as well as deploy it, inside a robot,
inside a plant, at the edge,
at a radio tower,
deploy it everywhere.
This is the next frontier.
In two years time,
we're going to be
largely done talking about agentic AI,
because we're all going to be using it.
In two years time,
if you invite me back again...
Every year. Every year Jensen.
We're going to be talking
about all these new companies.
Of course, we announced
a very important one,
a co-innovation lab with Lilly.
There'll be others, but,
you know this in order to set up
Lilly's AI factory,
unless you are,
unless you have the capabilities
of Nvidia and the full software stack
and the capabilities
of all the model
and the expertise
in that digital biology domain,
how would you even do it?
And so,
the things that we are building
in the next couple of years, you'll see,
really come to the fore.
And, we're going to
be talking about physical AI for,
you know, starting
next couple of 2 or 3 years
and for a decade.
So the speed of innovation
and the pace that you're operating in
is truly extraordinary.
So at the beginning of the week,
my partner Joe Moore made Nvidia
his number one pick. -Is that right?
It's his number one pick. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
Good timing Joe.
33 years later.
How do you think about the stock?
Do you think about the stock?
Do you have perspectives on it?
You're so extraordinarily important
and busy around
driving all this innovation
for, in essence,
everything that's going on
with 3500 attendees
and we had $40 trillion of market cap here.
How do you think about that?
Well, you know,
of course I care about the stock.
I care about shareholders, I care about
I care about our employees.
I care about all of you.
And you might be referring to,
we just had the best earnings
in the history of earnings.
Is that what you were saying?
I mean, somebody actually told me
that this might be the single best print
in the history of humanity.
And I said it must be only
you know, recorded humanity.
I'm sure somebody had better returns.
But anyways,
we had a very good quarter.
Listen,
you can't hold the stock back.
You can't hold it back.
And the reason for that is very simple.
Compute equals revenues for companies.
In the future,
every single company
will need compute for revenues.
I'll just make that prediction for now.
Every single company
will need compute for revenues.
And the reason for that
is because compute translates
to intelligence, which translates
to your digital workforce,
which translates to your revenues.
I'm certain compute equals revenues.
I'm certain also that compute equals GDP.
Therefore every country will have it
because not one country in the future
will say, guess what?
You know,
we're going to opt out on own
intelligence.
We've got...
I don't know what we got,
but we don't need intelligence.
That's the one thing we don't need. Okay.
And so if you need intelligence
you're going to need digital.
You need AI, you going to need compute.
And so compute equals GDP.
I know that for certain.
I also know that we're at the beginning
of this journey.
And I see crystal clearly
exactly how it's going to get funded.
We know for a fact that all the CSPs
took all of their CapEx
and they converted it to
generative agentic systems, AI systems,
because it helps search,
because it helps shopping,
because it helps ads,
because it helps social,
because it helps
literally every single internet
service in the world
has been reinvented into generative AI.
So they could take 100%,
the entire internet industry
could take 100% of their CapEx
and make it AI because it's better,
we've proven it to be better.
Meta has proven to be better.
Google has proven to be better.
AWS has proven to be better.
And so you can now take your CapEx
and convert to this.
Number two,
I just said the entire software
industry will be token driven,
the entire software industry.
You pick your favorite software company,
and I can show you
exactly how they're going
to be token driven.
And that token,
you take your favorite,
you know, software company, their token,
will be either produced by themselves,
which needs compute,
or they could be resold
and that needs compute.
And so what that says
for the first time is the entire
IT industry
will have to be fueled by compute.
That's exactly where all this is going to
come from, trillions of dollars of it.
And we're at the beginning of that.
So that's my prediction.
Thank you, Jensen,
for making history at this conference
27 years.
Thank you.
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In this discussion, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reflects on the company's 33-year journey, its transition from a niche graphics hardware provider to a foundational pillar of the AI era, and the company's full-stack strategy. Huang explains the shift from traditional computing to AI-driven token generation, framing AI data centers as 'factories' that directly correlate compute power to revenue and GDP. He also highlights the next major frontiers, particularly physical AI and autonomous systems, while emphasizing the enduring importance of accelerated computing and the Nvidia software ecosystem.
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