Co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA
Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang is the co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, whose work spans graphics processors, accelerated computing, and generative AI.
About Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served as its president, CEO, and a board member since its founding. The company's work spans graphics processors, accelerated computing, and computing platforms for generative AI.
Before NVIDIA, Huang worked at LSI Logic and Advanced Micro Devices. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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- TIME100 AI 2026: the omissions are the editorial thesis →
TIME published the 2026 TIME100 AI on August 27 and the replies filled with the same complaint: no Jensen Huang, no Demis Hassabis, no Karpathy, but Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck made it. Read the list carefully and the pattern is deliberate — Nvidia's seat went to its head of sustainability. explainx.ai breaks down what TIME actually measured and which of your daily tools have their makers on the list.
- NVIDIA Guarantees OpenAI's Ohio AI Factory: The PORTS-Pike LPS Deal →
On August 17, 2026, Jensen Huang announced NVIDIA is guaranteeing land, power and shell (LPS) costs at OpenAI's PORTS-Pike site in Portsmouth, Ohio — a 20-year, up to 8-gigawatt commitment inside a roughly $600 billion NVIDIA-OpenAI compute relationship through 2030. explainx.ai breaks down what NVIDIA is actually on the hook for, answers the "isn't this circular financing" question in Jensen's own words, and explains what a guaranteed multi-gigawatt compute pipeline means for builders paying for frontier model access.
- Nvidia's $500B Plan to Make GPUs an Asset Class — and Why Its CDS Doubled →
Jensen Huang wants GPU capacity treated like a toll road: an investable asset you borrow against. Six firms — Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman, KKR — signed on for $500 billion. The credit market reacted by pushing Nvidia's default swaps to a record. explainx.ai on what's actually being built and what the spread is pricing.
- Microsoft's AI Revenue Is Mostly OpenAI Paying Its Own Bill →
A wheresyoured.at analysis of Microsoft's FY26 filings found that roughly 70% of the company's reported AI revenue traces back to OpenAI's own Azure spending — money Microsoft invested flowing back as "growth." Here's how the loop works, what the 20%-revenue-share cap actually caps, and why the GPU depreciation schedule underneath it all is the more consequential fight.
- Ed Zitron Predicted OpenAI Would Collapse. Two Years Later: Score It →