Beyond Huang, another technological visionary who is worth paying close attention to is Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta Platforms. Over the last several weeks, Meta has reportedly been on an aggressive hiring campaign, poaching top AI researchers from OpenAI, Alphabet, GitHub, and Apple.

Jensen Huang is a busy guy. After all, he co-founded and still runs Nvidia, the computer chip company that sits at the heart of the ongoing artificial intelligence boom and is by most counts the most valuable company in the world.

AI in my case is creating jobs; it causes people to create things that other people would like to buy. It drives more growth, more jobs, and all that goes together. AI is the greatest technology equalizer of all time,

Nvidia's CEO has sold millions of dollars worth of his company's shares this year, and he's not done selling yet.

Jensen Huang believes questions of whether artificial intelligence (AI) could destroy humanity are fear-mongering — and get in the way of progress. The founder of Nvidia, which makes the computer chips enabling AI such as ChatGPT, was rankled when a journalist wondered if he is “an AI Robert Oppenheimer.” He’s not building bombs, he responded.

The tech executive is worth a staggering $151 billion—and luckily for staff, Nvidia’s unique stock option allows them to reap the gains of the $4 trillion company too.