Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he would be “delighted” to visit President-elect Donald Trump and “do everything we can” to help his administration succeed.
Huang was interviewed by Agency following Nvidia's presentation at CES earlier this week, in which he talked about the company's AI technology and how AI will “revitalize” the gaming industry.
However, he has yet to receive an invitation from Trump to Mar-a-Lago. “I would be happy to go see him,” Huang said, “and congratulate him and do everything I can to help this administration succeed.”
Huang is the latest tech chief to pay tribute to the Trump regime, following Apple CEO Tim Cook, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who have donated to Trump's inauguration fund.
In all likelihood, Huang would have made similar comments if Kamala Harris had won the presidency, considering he is the CEO of not only one of the largest U.S. tech companies but, for a brief period last year, the most valuable company in the world.
Perhaps Huang's praise of Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk is pertinent. Huang described Musk as “very optimistic” about the future of AI and is working on “some of the most important areas of AI.” In fact, Tesla is an Nvidia customer, and its artificial intelligence technology is included in the vehicles.
AI has been a big part of Nvidia's latest tech reveals, including its new GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card.
In fact, Huang told Agency: “At the edge, artificial intelligence is the most important technological force of our time and we are at the beginning of that.”
In addition, he specified that AI will “revitalize” the video game industry.
“On the one hand, for developers, it will reduce the cost of creating content,” he said. “On the other hand, all the characters that are in the games will be intelligent characters in the future, so every time you interact with them, they will interact with you in a much more intelligent way.
“And then the games will be more interesting, the characters will be more interesting, the cost of developing content will go down, and that will be really fantastic for the industry. I think the future is really bright for video games and these virtual worlds, and intelligence will revitalize them.”
Huang's comments on AI follow those from last year: “We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence,” he said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology conference.
Just this week, PUBG maker Krafton unveiled its new AI companions, while voice actress Jennifer Hale discussed with Eurogamer the dangers of AI for artists and why it's delaying SAG-AFTRA strike negotiations.