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‘Your Career Starts at the Beginning of the AI Revolution,’ NVIDIA CEO Tells Graduates

“You are entering the world at an extraordinary moment,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates as he delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th commencement ceremony on Sunday. “A new industry is being born. A ne

  • Hardware
  • Source: NVIDIA AI Blog
  • Published: 2026-05-10
  • Signal score: 3
  • 50 sources

Editor's take

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang addressed Carnegie Mellon graduates, framing their entry into the workforce as the dawn of a new AI-driven industry.

This pronouncement, delivered at a prominent academic institution, underscores the foundational role of hardware, particularly NVIDIA's GPUs like the H100, in enabling the current AI boom. It speaks to the immediate demand for skilled talent to develop and deploy these increasingly complex systems, impacting everything from cloud computing to specialized research.

Future commencements will reveal how quickly this "new industry" matures and whether institutions can adequately supply the specialized engineers needed. The continued evolution of AI hardware beyond current GPU architectures will also be a key indicator of long-term career sustainability.

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