AI now a driver of profits and GDP, says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Taipei, June 2
,: AI technology is no longer just an innovation tool but has become a generator of profits and GDP growth, said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Focus Taiwan reported.
He was speaking in Taiwan at the launch of the N1X processor that promises to upend the PC market by combining Nvidia's powerful Blackwell GPU with a 20-core CPU for bringing agentic AI tools on laptops and desktops that can run large language models and for a smooth gaming and AI experience.
"AI is now a profit generator. AI is now a GDP generator," the news report quoted Huang as saying.
The Nvidia boss said that the massive demand for AI is driving the investment in compute infra and that AI tokens have become profitable units of revenue.
Nvidia delivers AI chips that are at the core of huge data centres that are needed to train large AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, among others.
On the AI technology boom posing risks to jobs, Huang said that the innovation and productivity boost, especially in AI coding, will merit hiring of more software engineers by tech companies.
As the need for enterprise AI tools as well as agentic AI grows manifold, companies are massively investing in building compute infrastructure and will need engineers as a result of output and productivity gains, Huang said.
Huang focused on the agentic revolution that is underway, predicting that billions of AI agents will run businesses, industries and households.
"There'll be a lot more agents than there are people," Focus Taiwan quoted Huang as saying.
Nvidia's new Ai superchip for PCs will be launched in the fall and will rival the likes of AMD, Intel and Apple. Huang said that the collaboration with Microsoft to make the new chips is going to "reinvent the PC" for the AI era.
— ANI
Reader Comments
Interesting times ahead! Huang's point about AI being a GDP generator resonates with me, especially in the context of India outsourcing. With billions of AI agents predicted to run businesses, our companies in Bengaluru and Hyderabad need to pivot fast from service-based to product-based models. But we must be cautious about job displacement for non-engineering roles—not everyone can upskill to handle these tools overnight. Hope the government also invests in digital literacy programs alongside this tech push.
Jensen's vision of billions of AI agents feels like sci-fi come alive! 🇮🇳 The collaboration with Microsoft to reinvent PCs is particularly exciting—imagine running large language models on laptops in classrooms or small businesses across Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities in India. However, I'm skeptical about the cost. Nvidia's chips aren't cheap, and for India to truly benefit, we need affordable access. Else, it'll only widen the digital divide. Good to see Huang acknowledging the need for more engineers, though—our talent pool can leverage this growth.
As someone who works in tech, I see Huang's point about AI driving profits, but I'm uneasy about the agentic revolution. If billions of AI agents run businesses, who's accountable when things go wrong? In India, we've seen issues with automation in banking and customer service—errors can cascade quickly. The N1X processor sounds powerful for gaming and AI, but I hope Nvidia and partners like Microsoft focus on reliability and ethical guardrails. More software engineers is good news, but we need to ensure they work on safe AI deployment, not just building faster systems.
Honestly, this feels like another Silicon Valley utopian pitch. Huang talks about AI as a profit generator, but what about the environmental cost? Running these huge data centres for training models consumes massive energy—India is already struggling with power grids. Plus, the
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