Jensen Huang is co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, which he has led since founding it in 1993. Under his leadership NVIDIA’s GPUs became the dominant hardware platform for training and running AI models, making the company one of the most valuable in the world during the generative AI boom. Known for his leather jacket and marathon keynote presentations, he has become one of the most visible figures in the AI industry, regularly commenting on compute demand and AI infrastructure buildouts. As of 2026 he continues to lead NVIDIA through its central role supplying compute for the AI race.
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2026-10-02 Morgan Stanley reinstated nvidia as its semiconductor “Top Pick” ($300 target) after meeting Huang and CFO Colette Kress, citing a new product cycle and plans to double CPU revenue from $20B (2026) to $40B (2027). GuruFocus (independent)
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2026-09-29 Signed the White House Accord on Superintelligence alongside darioamodei, gdb, elonmusk, Zuckerberg, and Pichai; Trump also signed an executive order renaming AI “Super Intelligence” across the federal government. Trump called it only “morally,” not legally, binding. White House (primary) · CNN (independent)
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2026-09-28 On CNBC, called Chinese AI-model distillation “competition,” not theft, pushing back on the White House’s framing; said Nvidia’s data-center revenue rose 117% to $89B last quarter. CNBC (independent, HN: 72 points/78 comments)
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2026-09-24 Among the tech CEOs attending Trump’s state dinner for Xi Jinping at the White House; USTR Jamieson Greer said AI chip export controls are explicitly off today’s summit agenda, so no change expected to Blackwell/Rubin restrictions. CNBC (independent)
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2026-09-18 Told CBS there’s “0% chance” AI causes world-ending catastrophe by 2030 and repeated his opposition to a coordinated AI slowdown. Bloomberg (independent)
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2026-09-15 At Salesforce’s Dreamforce, broke publicly with darioamodei and Sam Altman on AI safety pacing: told a 12,000-person crowd that market forces already keep AI companies in check and new regulation isn’t needed, while Amodei repeated his slowdown call and Altman said safety must come before capability “with no qualifier.” CNBC (independent) · The Tribune (independent)
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2026-09-14 Trump phoned Huang live onstage at the All-In Summit while he was discussing darioamodei’s pacing essay, saying a slowdown is “not going to happen… It’s a hoax”; Huang agreed, “We’re not going to let that happen, sir,” breaking with elonmusk and Sam Altman’s public support for pacing. TechCrunch (independent) · Yahoo Finance (independent)
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2026-09-06 Posted “AGI has arrived,” crediting OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra (says it trained on ~100K NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems) and touting 400K more GPUs coming online. First cited 300K GPUs, then deleted that post and reposted with the lower figure. OpenAI itself has not made an AGI claim. Jensen Huang on X
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2026-09-03 Confirmed NVIDIA’s $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face, saying it will “remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem” and that NVIDIA compute won’t be required to build on or deploy through it. TechCrunch (independent) · CNBC (independent)
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2026-08-26 NVIDIA beat Q2 FY27 estimates ($96.2B revenue, +106% YoY) and guided Q3 to $108B, still excluding China data-center revenue; Huang forecast 70% revenue growth for FY28 and announced AWS will buy 2 million more GPUs plus Vera CPUs through 2028. NVIDIA Newsroom (primary) · Fortune (independent)
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2026-08-25 Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for Huang to testify before Congress after reports that Nvidia Jetson Orin modules were found in Russian drones; Nvidia says the modules are consumer-grade and not designed for military use. Benzinga (independent) · IANS (independent)
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2026-08-21 Met Rebellions co-founder and CEO Sunghyun Park in Santa Clara to discuss a possible technical partnership, investment, or acquisition of the Korean NPU startup, valued around $2.3B. Talks are early-stage. Bloomberg (independent) · Dataconomy (independent)
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2026-07-24 Made his first-ever X post to cosign “Open Weights and American AI Leadership,” a letter signed by NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and 21 other organizations, directed at Congress in response to the AI Kill Switch Act. Argued open models strengthen safety and enable national AI sovereignty. Elon Musk endorsed the letter the same day. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign. Fortune · Seeking Alpha · Decrypt