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Jensen Huang - Co-founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA

By Kamal Kashyap • Jul 02, 2026
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Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang is a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer and businessman. He co-founded NVIDIA, which pioneered GPU-accelerated computing.

Introduction

Jensen Huang is a Taiwanese-American billionaire electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Under his guidance as CEO, NVIDIA grew from a 3D graphics startup into the world's leading artificial intelligence hardware provider.

Founding NVIDIA & CUDA

Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 on his 30th birthday. Realizing that GPUs could do more than render video games, Huang launched the CUDA programming model in 2006. This enabled general-purpose computing on GPUs, laying the hardware foundation for neural networks.

AI Revolution Leader

NVIDIA's H100 and Blackwell supercomputing architectures have become the backbone of modern large language models, powering platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Huang has spearheaded this shift, establishing NVIDIA as a cornerstone of the modern AI industry.

Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang
Company NVIDIA
Country United States
Born February 17, 1963 (age 63)
Tainan, Taiwan
Education Oregon State University, Stanford University
Notable work NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA Programming Model, DLSS, Omniverse
Title Co-founder & CEO of NVIDIA

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