That 2016 slide when Jensen Huang called Nvidia an 'AI company' and nobody believed him
rao2z · x · 2026-11-13
The author recalls first hearing Jensen Huang declare Nvidia an "AI company" in January 2016, at an NYU AI summit keynote organized by Yann LeCun — a claim that sounded far-fetched then. The attached slide, "EVERY INDUSTRY WANTS INTELLIGENCE," shows organizations engaged with Nvidia on deep learning growing from 100 in 2013 to 1,549 in 2014 and 3,409 in 2015. The author also praises Huang's pragmatic AI takes as a welcome contrast to doom/singularity narratives, with an anecdote of Huang lunching alone at NeurIPS 2017.
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