No one is more unequivocally synonymous with the AI boom than Jensen Huang.
The Nvidia CEO—a hard-charging engineer whose first job was washing dishes at Denny’s—has become the axis on which all AI seemingly turns. Nvidia’s GPUs are the essential and hard-to-get “shovels” of AI, and demand has led to the company’s valuation in the public markets reaching an astonishing $5 trillion-plus. (Nvidia is also functionally the central bank of the circular AI economy.) In AI, all roads lead to Nvidia, and especially to Huang himself.
