Why Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff see ‘gigantic’ opportunity for agentic AI

Going forward, the opportunity for AI agents will be “gigantic,” according to Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang. 

Already, progress is “spectacular and surprising,” with AI development moving faster and faster and the industry getting into the “flywheel zone” that technology needs to advance, Huang said in a fireside chat at Salesforce’s flagship event Dreamforce this week. 

“This is an extraordinary time,” Huang said while on stage with Marc Benioff, Salesforce chair, CEO and co-founder. “In no time in history has technology moved faster than Moore’s Law. We’re moving way faster than Moore’s Law, are arguably reasonably Moore’s Law squared.”

Agents working with other agents, ‘working with us’

In the future, Huang noted, there will be AI agents that understand subtleties and that can reason and collaborate. They’ll be able to find other agents to “work together ...