- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang participates in Microsoft Build 2026 keynote
- Now AI is ‘really useful’ and even more exciting, he says
- Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip will power future Windows 11 laptops, including the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the AI era has taken a major turn and more and more workers around the world are seeing its benefits.
Speaking via video link at Microsoft Build 2026 as a guest at Satya Nadella’s keynote, Huang built on his company’s recent Computex 2026 announcements by revealing more about how the two companies will work together.
But it was the growing ubiquity of AI technology in offices and homes that led Huang to make his most interesting statement.
AI convergence
The theme of Nadella’s keynote was “unmeasured intelligence,” and a very tired-looking Huang (speaking from Computex 2026 in Taipei at 1 a.m. local time, possibly why he wasn’t wearing his signature leather jacket) praised the relationship between Microsoft software and Nvidia hardware in unlocking this new world.
“We’ve been working together for a decade and a half, preparing for, really, what’s happened in the last few months,” Huang said. “Suddenly, thanks to agent systems and the convergence of these rules, AI is now useful.”
“It is clear that the agent systems are useful, that they are doing productive work and, as a result, also the tokens are now profitable,” Huang said.
Huang’s speech came shortly after Nvidia announced its new Arm-based laptop chip at Computex 2026 in a bid to compete not only with Intel and AMD, but also hardware makers like Apple.
Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip will power future Windows 11 laptops, including the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, unveiled by Nadella at Microsoft Build.
The new device, designed specifically for AI developers, will offer a ridiculous 1 petaflop of AI computing along with 128 GB of unified memory capable of running up to 120 B of parameter models locally.
“This all started about three years ago,” Huang revealed, “we were talking about how we could build a new class of PC that’s amazing for designers and creators, for AI, and one of these systems has the processing power, but also the software stack built in… and here we are, we’ve built an amazing new chip, backed by all this software that you created for Windows.”
“Now we essentially have the ability to have an autonomous agent running on the PC…the PC evolved from being this amazing tool…the idea that I could be traveling, and I could text my PC and ask it to do some coding, and it would activate the tools and make the modifications that I told it to do…my PC became an assistant!”
“The idea that the PC evolved from a personal computer to a personal PC is very exciting, and to see it come to life and actually do it, I’m very excited about it.”
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