Jensen Huang says he wants Nvidia to be a company with 100 million AI assistants
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- Jensen Huang says he hopes Nvidia will be a 50,000 employee company with "a 100 million AI assistants."
- Huang described a future where Nvidia can use AI assistants across every division to raise output.
- Tech leaders, including Google and Salesforce, are also investing in AI agents.
Jensen Huang says that he hopes an army of artificial intelligence employees may one day help boost Nvidia's productivity.
"I'm hoping that Nvidia someday will be a 50,000 employee company with a 100 million, you know, AI assistants, in every single group," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on an episode of the "Bg2" podcast released on Sunday.
Huang described a future where the technology giant will mass deploy AI assistants, also called agents, across every division to improve output. AI agents break down a task into multiple smaller steps, each tackling a specific task to achieve a broader objective.
The CEO said that he interacts with AI agents himself, and like many other tech companies, Nvidia already uses agents for cybersecurity, chip design, and for software engineering.
"AIs will recruit other AIs to solve problems. AIs will be in Slack channels with each other, and with humans," Huang said. "So we'll just be one large employee base if you will — some of them are digital and AI, and some of them are biological."
Huang also said that while AI will change "every job," deploying it in companies can secure employment instead of hurt it.
"When companies become more productive using artificial intelligence, it is likely that it manifests itself into either better earnings, or better growth, or both," the CEO said. "When that happens, the next email from the CEO is likely not a layoff announcement."
Huang added that humans will be needed to pick between "trillions" of problems and decide what to solve, while bots can later help automate solutions. This will lead to hiring more people as the company becomes more productive.
Nvidia, which makes graphic processing units that have recently seen an explosion in demand, has emerged as one of the main winners of the AI investing craze. Huang, who started the company in 1993, has seen his personal fortune take off as a result of the company's success — he stands at number 11 on the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index.
Huang joins a list of Big Tech executives betting on AI agents to get ahead.
In September, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the company is making a "hard pivot" to Agentforce, which lets users build custom AI agents that can interact directly with customers. The agents are meant to be more advanced than AI chatbots and can be used with other Salesforce products.
And Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in May that the company is working on developing AI agents with more capabilities.
"They're able to think multiple steps ahead and work across software and systems, all to get something done on your behalf and, most importantly, with your supervision," Pichai said in May, days before the company's I/O conference.
The AI agent space is one even startups are getting their hands on, with some building tools for others to build agents, while other companies are creating agents for various uses themselves.