- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang drops in on Microsoft Build 2026 keynote
- Now that AI is “actually useful,” it’s even more exciting, he says
- Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip will power future Windows 11 laptops, including the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has claimed that the age of AI has turned a big corner, with the benefits now being seen by more and more workers around the world.
Speaking via video link at Microsoft Build 2026 as a guest spot in Satya Nadella’s opening keynote, Huang built on his company’s recent Computex 2026 announcements by revealing more about how the two companies will work together.
But it was the increasing prevalence of AI technology in offices and homes that prompted Huang to make his most interesting statement.
AI convergence
The theme of Nadella’s keynote was “unmeasured intelligence,” and a very tired-sounding Huang (who was speaking from Computex 2026 in Taipei at 1 a.m. local time — possibly why he wasn’t wearing his trademark leather jacket) praised the relationship between Microsoft’s new software and Nvidia.
“We’ve been working for a decade and a half together and getting ready for, really, what happened in the last few months,” Huang said. “Suddenly, because of agentic systems, the convergence of these rules, AI is now useful.”
“It’s clear that agent systems are useful, that it does productive work, and also tokens are now profitable as a result,” Huang said.
Huang’s speech came shortly after Nvidia announced its new Arm-based laptop chip at Computex 2026 in an effort to take on the likes of not just Intel and AMD, but also hardware makers like Apple.
Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip will power future Windows 11 laptops, including the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, unveiled by Nadella at Microsoft Build.
Designed specifically for AI developers, the new device will offer a ridiculous-sounding 1 petaflop AI computer along with 128GB of total memory capable of running up to 120B parameter models locally.
“It all started about three years ago,” Huang revealed, “we were talking about how we could build a new class of PC that’s incredible for designers and creators, for AI, and be one of these systems that has the processing power but also the software stack integrated… and here we are, we’ve built an incredible new chip, supported by all this software you’ve created for Windows.”
“We now essentially have the ability to have an autonomous agent running on the PC… the PC evolved from being an incredible tool… the idea that I could travel and I can text my PC and ask it to do some coding and it would turn on the tools and make the changes I told it to make… my PC became an assistant!”
“The idea that the PC evolved from a personal computer to a personal PC is just so exciting, and to see it come to life and actually do that, I’m super excited about that.”
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