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Who is Jensen Huang, the boss of Nvidia who wants to become the strong man of artificial intelligence?

2023-05-30T10:32:20.599Z

Highlights: Jensen Huang, 60, is the boss of the U.S.-based chipmaker Nvidia. He announced the release of a set of products related to artificial intelligence. Huang is one of the richest men in the world, with a personal fortune of $ 35 billion. He has already been elected Businessman of the Year in 2017 by Fortune magazine, and number 1 of the most successful CEOs in 2019 by the Harvard Business Review. He emigrated from Taiwan to the United States at the age of 9.


After becoming the king of graphics cards, the boss of the American company announced that his company would continue to invest


"I haven't given a public speech in four years. Wish me luck! Unlike one of his competitors Elon Musk, Jensen Huang is discreet on the public stage. The 60-year-old businessman was the special guest at the Computex technology fair in Taiwan on Monday. And the Taiwanese-American boss of Nvidia hit hard by announcing the release of a set of products related to artificial intelligence, to reaffirm its position as a leader in the market.

The chipmaker has already started production of a new artificial intelligence supercomputer platform called DGX GH20. "We are delighted that Google Cloud, Meta and Microsoft are the first companies in the world to have access to it," he added. According to him, this platform is intended for "exploratory research on the pioneering front, the limits of artificial intelligence".

Already among the 40 richest people in the world

The limits of artificial intelligence are precisely the niche on which Jensen Huang has placed. "The tipping point of a new computer age," as he summed it up from Taiwan on Monday. A sector that exploded in 2023 and is based on so-called generative AI, capable of creating content without human intervention on request in everyday language, thanks to large databases.

AI | The world is at the "tipping point of a new era of computing," according to Nvidia
➡️ boss https://t.co/Qo4j22XojL pic.twitter.com/PUDLTfqba9

— Le Parisien (@le_Parisien) May 29, 2023

Nvidia's market capitalization has nearly a trillion dollars on the New York Stock Exchange, making him one of the richest men in the world. His personal fortune, estimated at $ 35 billion, now places him in 37th place in the ranking of the greatest wealth according to Bloomberg. Nvidia would be only the sixth company in the world to exceed one billion in capitalization.

From video games to the origins of ChatGPT

His career, however, was far from being written in advance. Jen-Hsun Huang, his real name, emigrated from Taiwan to the United States at the age of 9. "I am the fruit of my parents' dreams. Every day, my mother, who did not speak English, would choose 10 words at random from the dictionary, ask us to spell them out and give her definition, "Jensen Huang told the American news channel CNBC in 2018.

On the benches of the University of Oregon, he impresses much more in ping-pong, where he is ranked among the best players in the country, than in his master's degree in "electrical engineering". Graduating in 1984, "the best year possible" according to him, with the release of the first Macintosh computer, the young engineer first worked at his future competitors Advanced Micro Devices and LSI Logic Corp. before launching, in 1993, his own company Nvidia, from the Latin invidia, envy.

Jensen Huang then first targets the video game industry and its graphics cards. Six years later, the company created its flagship product, the GeForce, the first graphics processor in history, which will power Microsoft's Xbox console.

Nvidia is waiting until 2012 to truly take the turn of artificial intelligence by taking part in the AlexNet network, pioneer of facial recognition. Ten years later, with Nvidia AI Enterprise, Jensen Huang is one of the market leaders with his image, text or computer code generation platform behind ChatGPT's digital language.

If he is extremely discreet, the 60-year-old engineer has already been elected Businessman of the Year in 2017 by Fortune magazine, and number 1 of the most successful CEOs in 2019 by the Harvard Business Review. Recognized by his peers, but not necessarily by the general public, his intelligence is not that artificial.

Source: leparis

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