Striding confidently across the stage at a National Hockey League arena in San Jose, Calif., dressed in his signature black leather jacket, Jensen Huang, perhaps the most important technologist in the world, took a moment to reflect on the achievements of NVIDIA, the chipmaker he founded and leads.

“AI has made extraordinary progress,” Huang said at the event, which he coined as the “Super Bowl of AI”. Now with generative AI, it has “fundamentally changed how computing is done,” the CEO added.