Nvidia's Jensen Huang thinks $1 trillion won’t be enough to meet AI demand—and he's paying engineers in AI tokens worth half their salary to prove it

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Just a few short years ago, AI was a novel concept generating uncanny, sloppy photos and videos that appeared across your social media feeds. Today, it’s seemingly ubiquitous. New models are popping up almost every month. There’s AI integration in pockets of Hollywood. And even if it’s so far failing to boost your productivity at the office, AI has most likely already appeared in your workplace. That sprawling expansion requires enormous infrastructure investment. And Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company is expecting to deliver those building blocks at a massive scale.

During his keynote address Monday at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose, Huang said the company doubled its demand forecast within the next year. “I see through 2027 at least $1 trillion,” he said. “In fact, we are going to be short. I am certain computing demand will be much higher than that.”