Can anything stop Nvidia’s Jensen Huang?
He has become the generative-AI showman of our time
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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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “The Jensen interceptor”
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