Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more
THE SO WHAT
When the leading GPU supplier frames AI as net job-creating and leans into open ecosystems and cross-border model development, that’s guidance on where long-term capex and policy bets may go. Treat this less as philosophy and more as a forward-looking map of where infrastructure, open tooling, and regulation are likely to stay investable.
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