The high- and low-level context behind Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 keynote | Dion Harris interview

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, hit a lot of high concepts and low-level tech speak at his GTC 2025 keynote speech last Tuesday at the sprawling SAP Center in San Jose, California. My big takeaway was that the humanoid robots and self-driving cars are coming faster than we realize.

Huang, who runs one of the most valuable companies on earth with a market value of $2.872 trillion, talked about synthetic data and how new models would enable humanoid robots and self-driving cars to hit the market with faster velocity.

He also noted that we’re about to shift from data-intensive retrieval-based computing to a different form enabled by AI: generative computing, where AI reasons an answer and provides the information, rather than having a computer fetch data from memory to provide the information.

I was fascinated how Huang went from subject to subject with ease, without a script. But ...