- Jensen Huang says the era of “useful AI” is here
- Nvidia CEO praises the speed and efficiency of new technology
- Huang joins Michael Dell on stage to unveil new AI Factory hardware
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has reiterated his support for increased AI use in the workplace, highlighting the huge potential productivity and efficiency gains for organizations everywhere.
“Our business has always been fast, but it’s really fast now,” Huang said on stage at Dell Technologies World 2026 this week, “We’ve now arrived at the era of useful AI, which is why the demand is going to be parabolic, absolutely parabolic.”
“What used to take months now takes weeks. What used to take weeks now takes days. And what used to take 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 computational requirements.”
“The new Jensen”
“What has really changed is that our ambition has changed,” Huang continued. “There is no doubt that my ambition has changed. I wanted to be someone who could do something, make a contribution, but I was the old Jensen. The new Jensen: I have big ambitions now!”
“The amount of software work that we do in our company now supported by agents is incredible,” Huang added.
“An engineer, a really good engineer today, works with an agent, but a really good engineer in the future is going to orchestrate a whole bunch of agents. We’re going to orchestrate a whole bunch of sub-agents to do work. We’ve now arrived at the era of useful AI, which is just really exciting for all of us, because until now it’s been something new.”
Huang was speaking at his now-traditional cameo appearance at Dell Technologies World 2026, where he spoke alongside company CEO and founder Michael Dell, who was also keen to champion the benefits of AI in the workplace.
“Not long ago, AI meant assistants that could type faster and summarize better and answer questions, but that was from the age of 20 percent to 30 percent productivity gains,” Dell noted. “It was valuable and kind of amazing, but really just the beginning. Now we’re deploying agentic autonomous AI agents that plan, reason, execute and adapt, closing a loop.”
Now is the time for companies to “completely rethink and rethink” workflows for the agentic AI era, Dell continued, noting that this “will lead us to 20x and 30x gains in terms of productivity improvements…so whoever gets there first will quickly distance themselves from everyone else, and the companies that think they won’t become agents struggling to survive.”
Huang and Dell also revealed a host of new improvements to their AI Factory initiative, which will be boosted by the 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 10 times lower cost per unit. token than Nvidia Blackwell for massive-scale agent AI inference along with new PowerEdge XE9880L, XE9885L and XEvidia the first and XE9885L server Rubin NVL8 supporting up to 144 GPUs per rack with 100% direct liquid-cooled computing nodes and up to 5.5x the performance of the HGX B200.
Dell signed off by calling Huang a “great partner and friend, a true leader and visionary in the AI age,” noting how the next era of AI infrastructure will be “built by deep partnerships between companies that advance accelerated computing and the companies that know how to implement it in the real world.”
“I’m here every year selling Dell!” Huang laughed.
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