Jensen Huang

On Monday, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang answered a call from former President Donald Trump while speaking at the All‑In Podcast’s All‑In Summit in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Huang placed Trump on speakerphone before a large audience, allowing the former president to launch into a brief address that dismissed recent concerns about artificial intelligence as a "hoax" and asserted that "the robots will not be taking over." The onstage exchange followed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," which urged a slowdown in AI development. The incident highlights the growing intersection of politics and technology, as leaders directly engage with industry executives to shape public discourse on AI’s future.

During its latest earnings call, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company had "achieved AGI," a milestone long sought by the tech industry. Huang immediately dismissed the claim as "senseless," noting that there is no industry consensus on what artificial general intelligence actually means or how to verify it. When asked about OpenAI’s pursuit of AGI, Huang said that for many tasks Nvidia could already claim AGI. The statement highlights the ambiguity surrounding the term and underscores how companies may use the label to describe advanced AI capabilities without meeting a universally accepted definition.