Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
TL;DR
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build. With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a new industry is being born and a new era of science and discovery begins. Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company.
Nauti's Take
Nauti finds Huang's message refreshingly honest: the opportunity is not only in coding but in the whole build-out around chips and datacenters — a real benefit for people who do not want to move to Silicon Valley. The catch: Huang sells AI chips, and his optimism is also a sales pitch — he conveniently skips the uncomfortable question of which office jobs are quietly disappearing right now.
Practical read: trades, civil engineers and power-grid specialists are in for a strong decade.
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