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Can anything stop Nvidia’s Jensen Huang?

He has become the generative-AI showman of our time

illustration of Jensen Huang depicted as 'Hendrix,' holding a large computer chip instead of a guitar. Psychedelic symbols emanate from the chip, surrounding him in a vibrant display of colors and patterns.
Illustration: Brett Ryder

Jensen Huang is a man on a mission—but not so much that he does not have time to tell a good story at his own expense. Last spring, when his semiconductor company, Nvidia, was well on its way to becoming a darling of generative artificial intelligence (AI), he and his wife bought a new home in the Bay Area. Mr Huang was so busy he could not spare much time to visit it before the purchase was completed. Pity, he admitted later, sneezing heavily. It was surrounded by plants that gave him hay fever.

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