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.

Jensen Huang reaffirmed Nvidia’s starring role in the AI industry during a keynote address at Nvidia’s annual GTC conference on Tuesday. Through its new open-source software, Huang showed how Nvidia can ramp up DeepSeek R1’s efficiency 30-fold.

Nvidia founder Jensen Huang kicked off the company's artificial intelligence developer conference on Tuesday by telling a crowd of thousands that AI is going through “an inflection point.” GTC 2025, heralded as “AI Woodstock,