Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang has built Nvidia over four decades from a maker of graphics chips for gamers into one of the most important players in the AI boom. Tech CEOs wine and dine the leather-jacket-clad Huang to secure Nvidia’s coveted GPUs for their data centers, while the Biden administration views these chips as strategic assets, restricting China's access to Nvidia's most advanced products. Under Huang's leadership, Nvidia is “moving up the stack”—expanding from hardware to offering cloud computing services and AI models directly to customers. Huang envisions a new paradigm where AI-enabled assistants become our primary digital interface and GPUs supplant CPUs (central processing units) as the primary workhorses of computing. Nvidia's market dominance has propelled its shares to record highs, making it one of the world's most valuable companies, with a market cap exceeding $3 trillion. While critics question the sustainability of these valuations, Huang's influence is undisputed.