Lex Fridman Podcast
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#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution

March 23, 2026

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Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution.

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EPISODE LINKS:

NVIDIA: https://nvidia.com

NVIDIA on X: https://x.com/nvidia

NVIDIA AI on X: https://x.com/NVIDIAAI

NVIDIA on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@nvidia

NVIDIA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nvidia/

NVIDIA on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nvidia/

NVIDIA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NVIDIA/

NVIDIA on GitHub: https://github.com/NVIDIA

Nemotron: https://developer.nvidia.com/nemotron

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OUTLINE:

() – Introduction

() – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections

() – Extreme co-design and rack-scale engineering

() – How Jensen runs NVIDIA

() – AI scaling laws

() – Biggest blockers to AI scaling laws

() – Supply chain

() – Memory

() – Power

() – Elon and Colossus

() – Jensen’s approach to engineering and leadership

() – China

() – TSMC and Taiwan

() – NVIDIA’s moat

() – AI data centers in space

() – Will NVIDIA be worth $10 trillion?

() – Leadership under pressure

() – Video games

() – AGI timeline

() – Future of programming

() – Consciousness

() – Mortality

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