Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gets a rockstar welcome in birthplace Taiwan as charismatic founder says his firm’s revolutionary AI chip will allow ANYONE to become a programmer – just by SPEAKING to the computer

The founder and CEO of a $1 trillion tech company has unveiled a new AI platform which he says will allow everybody to become computer programmers, merely by speaking to their software.

Jensen Huang, the 60-year-old chief of chipmaker Nvidia, is only the second U.S. CEO after Jeff Bezos to lead a trillion-dollar company they co-founded.

Nvidia shares have been on a tear, rising on stellar sales projections from a boom in artificial-intelligence workloads and components.

Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT on November 30, Nvidia’s value has ballooned from roughly $420 billion to its current level.

On Monday, Huang, who is Taiwanese-American, was given a rapturous reception at the Computex forum in Taipei, where he was mobbed by people wanting selfies and followed by camera crews everywhere he went.

Addressing the annual gathering, Huang spoke about a new AI supercomputer platform called DGX GH200, aimed at building generative AI models – a type of artificial intelligence technology that can produce content, including text, imagery, audio and synthetic data.

Huang said it would make programming open to all.

‘AI is an incredible computer that’s very easy to program,’ he said.

‘You can speak whatever language you like, you can even draw pictures. I have just turned everyone into a programmer.’

He celebrated the end of what he called the ‘digital divide.’

‘The programming barrier is incredibly low. We have closed the digital divide. Everyone is a programmer now — you just have to say something to the computer,’ he said.

‘Every single computing era you could do different things that weren’t possible before, and artificial intelligence certainly qualifies.

‘The rate of progress, because it’s so easy to use, is the reason why it’s growing so fast,’ he noted.

‘This is going to touch literally every single industry.’

Huang’s image was used to promote the annual event, and he was mobbed by fans on Monday

The 60-year-old was passionate about the potential of artificial intelligence, saying it would end the ‘digital divide’

Nvidia was founded in Santa Clara, California in 1993 and is now valued at $1 trillion

Huang’s wealth has rocketed amid an explosion of interest in AI, rising by more than $6 billion to a record $34 billion.

Huang was born in Taiwan but moved to the United States as a child, earning engineering degrees at Oregon State University and Stanford University.

He co-founded the company in 1993 and still runs it as chief executive officer.

On Tuesday, Huang addressed a round table and said AI was full of potential and pitfalls.

‘We have to be very serious about AI safety,’ he said, according to Bloomberg.

‘Ultimately AI is a product or a service. All products and services should be regulated and should be safe.’

He pointed to the enormous potential of AI in drug discovery and understanding climate change.