Jensen HuangCo-founder & CEOEurope's sovereign AI and accelerated computing

Existential panic fundamentally misinterprets engineering realities and distracts from tangible, solvable deployment challenges. If someone genuinely believed their software would eradicate civilization, continuing to develop it would be irrational; we build technology to augment human productivity and cure human suffering.

Sovereign computing does not require fabricating every single physical transistor domestically from day one. By deploying high-performance computing clusters locally, nations can train customized models on their native languages, national heritage data, and cultural nuances while ensuring local data governance.

Moore's Law has ended for conventional CPUs, causing computing costs and power consumption to scale unsustainably with data growth. Accelerated computing offloads parallel mathematical workloads to specialized GPUs, slashing energy consumption by orders of magnitude while accelerating processing throughput.

Accelerated computing is the most effective energy-saving strategy available for enterprise data infrastructure. Replacing sprawling server farms of inefficient CPUs with dense GPU superclusters delivers dramatically higher computational output per megawatt consumed.

Open-source model architectures democratize technical experimentation and allow thousands of global enterprises to innovate rapidly without vendor lock-in. NVIDIA optimizes its full computing stack to accelerate both open models and proprietary commercial APIs impartially.

We architect modular supercomputing systems and work in intimate, long-term partnerships with advanced packaging, memory, and semiconductor foundries worldwide. Diversifying component sourcing and optimizing system yield are constant daily operational disciplines.

While digital text and media generation captured early consumer attention, the physical economy represents the vast majority of global GDP. Applying generative spatial intelligence to heavy manufacturing, robotic automation, and material science will generate astronomical enterprise value.

Silicon alone cannot solve complex domain problems; our competitive advantage lies in decades of co-designed software libraries, compilers, and application frameworks. Millions of global developers build on CUDA because it provides unmatched optimization and architectural portability.

We must regulate specific operational applications, safety outcomes, and human impacts rather than trying to stifle the mathematical algorithms themselves. Regulating medical devices, automated transportation, and financial systems ensures rigorous public safety without choking fundamental scientific progress.

We eliminate bureaucratic layers, foster transparent cross-functional communications, and encourage direct executive problem-solving without formal status hierarchies. Everyone at NVIDIA is expected to operate as a hands-on craftsperson dedicated to shipping transformative products.

Every sovereign state recognizes that national data is a vital strategic asset that should not simply be exported raw. Governments are investing heavily in domestic digital infrastructure to process local information into proprietary national intelligence.

Autonomous agents execute persistent reasoning loops, iterative tool calls, and recursive self-reflection, generating massive continuous inference demand. Future data centers must be purpose-built for sustained, low-latency interactive inference workloads at planetary scale.

Invest aggressively in foundational computing infrastructure, nurture world-class universities, and foster open regulatory environments that attract ambitious global talent. Technology leadership flows naturally to regions that prioritize energetic digital innovation over bureaucratic caution.

Embrace the willingness to endure pain, tolerate prolonged setbacks, and run toward the hardest technical problems that others avoid. Breakthrough inventions require immense intellectual resilience and the stamina to pursue non-consensus convictions until the world catches up.