Jensen Huang
ON THE RECORD · 28 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“I don't like tax dollars wasted. But I also support all that this country represents.”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Huang stated he dislikes wasted tax dollars but supports what the country represents.
“I am the ultimate American dream,”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Huang, whose first job was as a dishwasher, described himself as the ultimate American dream.
“If not for this country, the education, the ability to create a new company, pursue your dreams, I wouldn't have met all the people that made Nvidia possible. I love this country in every possible way. And it's not perfect, but it's incredible.”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Huang credited the country, its education system, and the people he met for making Nvidia possible.
“I don't mind paying taxes; the more you make, the more taxes you pay, so I'm okay with that,”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Huang, the only billionaire willing to speak about Prop 40, expressed willingness to pay taxes.
“I'm not afraid of paying taxes. I'm just afraid of being poor.”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Huang said he is not afraid of paying taxes but is afraid of being poor.
“The fact that I can afford to pay $8 billion in taxes over five years is a privilege,”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-18
Huang, estimated to pay perhaps $8 billion over five years under Prop 40, called the ability to afford it a privilege.
“In the future, improve your process so that you could avoid this from happening again.”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-28
Huang said in a podcast with Ezra Klein that processes should be improved to prevent future AI incidents.
“You can't have agents roam around and drift around the company, and so you have to find a way to container it,”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-09-28 · reported 2026-09-28
Huang told CNBC that AI agents need to be contained rather than allowed to roam freely within companies.
“We can't have a successful AI industry if the world doesn't think it's built or confident that it's built and deployed safely,”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-09-28 · reported 2026-09-28
Huang told CNBC that the AI industry cannot succeed unless the world is confident AI is built and deployed safely.
“You have to think about what you could have done, what's the solution for it,”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-28
Huang said in a podcast with The New York Times' Ezra Klein that developers should consider solutions to recent AI security incidents.
“a browser for agents.”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-09-28 · reported 2026-09-28
Huang told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform is essentially a modern browser for AI agents.
“There were incidents, and those incidents, thankfully, did no harm,”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-20
Huang acknowledged incidents but said they thankfully did no harm.
“is going to be the end of humanity”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-13
Huang has previously said the notion that AI is going to be the end of humanity is complete nonsense.
“Nvidia's infrastructure, engineering and global reach can help improve platform reliability, safety, model evaluation, inference and deployment capabilities, while preserving the open ecosystem that made Hugging Face foundational.”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-04
Huang wrote in a blog post that Hugging Face will stay open-source and the deal will help grow both companies' infrastructure for developers and organisations globally.
“We share this vision, and the Hugging Face team will now bring their passion and expertise to a much larger canvas, with their same iconic brand.”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-04
In the same blog post, Huang said the Hugging Face team will bring their passion and expertise to a much larger canvas.
“I am honoured that [Clément Delangue] came to me as he considered the next chapter of Hugging Face and believed Nvidia would be a great home for the company, its community and the future of open models,”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-04
Huang said he was honoured that Delangue came to Nvidia as he considered the next chapter of Hugging Face.
“To the millions of builders on Hugging Face: thank you for pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We can't wait to build the future together with you. Together, we will make AI more open, more capable and more accessible to people and institutions around the world.”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-04
Huang addressed the millions of builders on Hugging Face, thanking them and saying the companies will make AI more open, capable, and accessible together.
“return on investment capital is now less than a year.”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-29
Jensen Huang discussed the rapid return on investment capital for customers purchasing Nvidia's AI infrastructure.
“I think the risk is low.”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-27
Huang assessed the risk of Nvidia's investments as low, arguing its computing infrastructure can be redeployed across different customers.
“I think they're missing a very big point,”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-27
Huang responded on CNBC's Mad Money to critics who say Nvidia's financial support for AI companies is meant to inflate its top-line growth.
“The money we've invested is going to generate tremendous returns,”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-27
Huang added that Nvidia's investments will generate tremendous returns as he pushed back against concerns the company could be left on the hook.
“This is the first generation of startups that needed tens of billions of dollars to get funded,”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-27
Huang described the unprecedented capital requirements of AI startups after Nvidia reported better-than-expected quarterly results.
“There are several companies, these frontier AI labs, that are once-in-a-generation companies, and we want to be investors in them. We want to support them. We want to be a partner to them. We would love for them to build their ecosystem on top of us, of course, and then scale up their business along with us. And so, the opportunity to invest in them in the beginning was a great opportunity.”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-27
Huang explained Nvidia's desire to be an equity investor in frontier AI labs it considers once-in-a-generation companies.
“They're not investment grade. They don't have the track record, the capital track record, the financial track record, to be able to capture or secure capital at a low cost. And this is where Nvidia could be helpful,”
Jensen Huang · said 2026-08-26 · reported 2026-08-27
Huang said frontier AI companies lack the financial track records to secure capital at low cost, which is where Nvidia steps in.
“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.
“The rest of my data center is all 100% Vera Rubin,”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-24
Huang said at the Vera Rubin and Groq 3 LPX unveiling in March that he would allocate a quarter of data center space for coding applications to Groq chips.
“Today, I’m announcing that the U.S. government has approved for us filing licenses to start shipping H20s,”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-15
Jensen Huang announced to reporters in Beijing that the U.S. approved filing licenses to ship H20 chips to China.
“It’s so innovative and dynamic here in China that it’s really important that American companies are able to compete and serve the market here,”
Jensen Huang · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-15
Jensen Huang stressed the importance of American tech companies competing in the Chinese market.