The Nvidia CEO gave his continued bullish assessment of artificial intelligence, calling it an “incredible technology” and saying it should be seen as infrastructure, just like electricity.

This is going to be the decade of [autonomous vehicles], robotics, autonomous machines,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday.

A breakfast meeting at a Denny's restaurant led to the creation of NVIDIA Corporation. Today, the Nvidia CEO is worth significantly more than the restaurant company.

Overall, Nvidia is crushing execution. Jensen Huang is still the oracle of AI. But the NVDA stock is priced like the future is already here, and already profitable.

Wearing his signature biker jacket and mobbed by fans for selfies, the Nvidia CEO cut the figure of a tech rockstar as he took the stage at VivaTech in Paris. “AI is the greatest equalizer of people the world has ever created,” Huang said, kicking off one of Europe’s biggest technology industry fairs.

Nvidia designed a new architecture called Blackwell to power those inference workloads, and it produces up to 40 times more performance than the Hopper architecture. But it might not be enough, because Huang says some reasoning models consume a staggering 1,000 times more tokens (words, punctuation, and symbols) than the old one-shot LLMs.

Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, defies typical leadership norms, driven by a profound fear of failure rather than mere optimism. According to his biographer Stephen Witt, this anxiety fuels his relentless work ethic and innovation,