“When was the last time anybody heard of a startup that needed billions of dollars to get off the ground and needed tens of billions of dollars to become profitable? That just never happened. But that's really the nature of AI. The cost of building AI, the cost of deploying AI, it's very capital intensive.”

Jensen Huang · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-27

Huang argued that building and deploying AI is very capital intensive, unlike any previous generation of startups.