Nvidia boss Jensen Huang spent two days (July 15-16) in Tokyo courting Japan’s industrial and chip supplier elite, weeks after a keynote speech in Taiwan and months after a visit to South Korea. It left with deals that span Japan’s entire tech ecosystem: a national AI factory, partnerships with the country’s leading robotics companies, and
Jensen Huang arrived in Tokyo with gifts: a series of artificial intelligence and robotics partnerships for Japan’s tech industry, and red bean buns for the crowd. On Wednesday, the Nvidia CEO visited a red-lanterned izakaya, a traditional Japanese bar, in Tokyo’s Kanda district, where a crowd gathered outside hoping to catch a glimpse of “kawa-jan”
Jensen Huang says his software engineers love how AI is changing their role. “These agent systems are new skills, and now we have a lot of software engineers creating agents,” the Nvidia CEO said in an interview published by the company on Wednesday. “If you ask me, every one of my software engineers would rather