- Jensen Huang says the era of “useful AI” is here
- Nvidia CEO praises the speed and efficiency of the new technology
- Huang joins Michael Dell on stage to introduce new AI Factory hardware
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has once again expressed his support for greater use of AI in the workplace, highlighting the huge potential productivity and efficiency gains for organizations around the world.
“Our company has always been fast, but now it’s really fast,” Huang said on stage at Dell Technologies World 2026 this week. “We have reached the era of useful AI, which is why demand is going parabolic, absolutely parabolic.”
“What took months now takes weeks. What took weeks now takes days. And what took days now takes hours. Things that would have taken an hour, you and I expect instantly now. It’s a big deal in productivity, but a giant leap in computing requirements.”
“The new Jensen”
“What has really changed is that our ambition has changed,” Huang continued. “There’s no doubt that my ambition has changed. I wanted to be someone who did something, who made a contribution, but I was the old Jensen. The new Jensen: I have big ambitions now!”
“The amount of software work we do in our company now supported by agents is incredible,” Huang added.
“An engineer, a really good engineer today, is working with one agent, but a really great engineer in the future will be orchestrating a bunch of agents. We’re going to orchestrate a bunch of subagents to get the job done. Now we’ve reached the era of useful AI, which is really exciting for all of us because it’s been novel so far.”
Huang spoke in his now traditional cameo at Dell Technologies World 2026, where he spoke alongside the company’s CEO and founder, Michael Dell, who was also interested in championing the benefits of AI in the workplace.
“Not long ago, AI meant assistants who could type faster, summarize better, and answer questions, but that meant a 20 to 30 percent productivity increase over age,” Dell said. “It was valuable and somewhat surprising, but really just the beginning. We are now deploying autonomous AI agents that plan, reason, execute, adapt and close a loop.”
Now is the time for companies to “completely rethink and reimagine” workflows for the age of agent AI, Dell continued, noting that this “will lead us to 20 and 30 times gains in terms of productivity improvement… so whoever gets there first will quickly distance themselves from the rest, and I think companies that don’t become AI-driven businesses will have a hard time surviving.”
Huang and Dell also unveiled a number of new enhancements to their AI Factory initiative, which will be boosted by new Nvidia hardware announced earlier this year at GTC 2026.
This includes a Dell PowerRack with Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 (a version of which was signed on stage by Huang), which the company says can deliver up to 10x lower cost per token than Nvidia Blackwell for large-scale agent AI inference, along with the new PowerEdge XE9880L, XE9885L and Support up to 144 GPUs per rack with 100% direct liquid-cooled compute nodes and up to 5.5x the performance of HGX B200.
Dell signed off by calling Huang a “great partner and friend, a true leader and visionary of the AI era,” noting how the next era of AI infrastructure will be “built through deep partnerships between companies that are driving accelerated computing and the companies that know how to deploy it in the real world.”
“I’m here every year selling Dell!” Huang joked.
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