Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive — compares not using AI to using paper and pencil for designing chips

Jensen Huang at the All-In Podcast.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that he’ll be deeply alarmed if an engineer getting paid $500,000 a year does not consume at $250,000 worth of AI tokens to get their job done. The leather-clad chief of the world’s most valuable AI company said this during an episode of the All-In Podcast shot on the last day of Nvidia GTC 2026, after one of the hosts asked Huang if he’s spending around $2 billion a year on tokens for the Nvidia engineering team, with Jensen answering, “We’re trying to.”