Chipmaker NVIDIA Corporation held its GTC Conference earlier today, which was packed with a variety of different announcements. These ranged from NVIDIA's partners revealing the use of the firm's products in their daily operations to the firm's plans to aid next-generation semiconductor fabrication, a quantum computing surprise, and the firm's efforts to capitalize on the recent wave of interest in artificial intelligence. However, before the conference, NVDIA's chief executive officer Mr. Jensen Huang made interesting comments in an interview with CNBC, when he shared his plans for a potential leadership transition in the firm and his enthusiasm for the industry.
NVIDIA Chief Intends To Remain Longest Running Technology CEO
NVIDIA is one of the most consequential firms in the technology sector, with its products creating their own industries and being used across various sectors, from enterprise computing to gaming. Mr. Huang set up NVIDIA in 1993 and has been the firm's chief executive officer for three decades.
However, the executive has no plans to retire from the company and aims to continue his role for at least a few more decades. Before today's GTC conference, Mr. Huang gave an interview with CNBC's Katie Tarasov, where he hinted that he might even be serving as NVIDIA's CEO even when he's a hundred years old.
When asked by Tasarov if he plans to end his role as the longest-serving technology firm CEO in history, Mr. Huang replied:
I think I’m making a real contribution to the company to make an environment where we can make really amazing contributions. So, I think for as long as I believe I can do that, I don’t know exactly for how long that’s gonna be, but 3 to 4 decades I’d say. Another 4 decades I’d be robotic and maybe another 3 to 4 decades after that. Hopefully, I get to enjoy this for a very long time.
He also talked about how his firm started as an accelerated computing technology provider and managed to create an entirely new industry by applying the technology to video games. Since then, NVIDIA has come a long way, with its products used in nearly every high-technology industry, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, supercomputers, autonomous vehicles, gaming consoles and manufacturing systems.
However, NVIDIA's journey hasn't always been full of successes, and the executive shared some of the challenges he faced. He shared that "we barely know exactly what we're doing, you know so when you're doing something that you've never done before, you're not exactly sure what you're doing." This focus on an entirely new industry led to product, execution, and strategy mistakes during NVIDIA's early days, with Mr. Huang stressing that he ensures that his company does not forget the experiences.
Some "great" decisions that NVIDIA made along the way was positioning its products in such a manner that new technologies, such as neural nets, could use them and then reaching out to users such as research universities to position them right at the start of a new wave of use cases.
One of NVIDIA's biggest wins, though is its products powering the chatbot ChatGPT, and while commenting on the convolutional neural network Alexnet, Mr. Huang shared:
But the part that was really wonderful was when we realized that Alexnet is not just some neural network, but it's a whole new way of doing software. Alexnet is profound in that way. Not only was it a giant breakthrough in computer vision, it was also a profoundly new way of doing software. Some people call it software 2.0, where the machine augments the software programmers, and the data writes the software. Instead of humans typing in a software program, the data creates the software. That way of using experience or data to cause a software to be able to make future prediction was so profound, and we had the good wisdom to put the whole company behind it.
We saw early on, about a decade or so ago, that this way of doing software could change everything. All of the software that we wanted to write that we didn't know how to write, we could now do. And that was a great decision, and we changed the company from the bottom to all the way to the top and sideways. Every chip that we made was focused on artificial intelligence. We built a wonderful research organization dedicated to artificial intelligence. Our entire software stack was invented for AI. And then all the things that we did to create large systems, and networks, which then became this thing called an AI supercomputer. And I remember delivering my very first AI supercomputer, I hand delivered it myself. I delivered it to OpenAI. The world's very first AI supercomputer was delivered to OpenAI.
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