Our shareholders were skeptical of CUDA and preferred we improve profitability.” “We suffered many years of poor performance. “Our market cap hovered just above a billion dollars,” he recalled. It was an expensive, long-term investment that drew much criticism didn’t pay off for years until the chips started being used for machine learning. The second was the decision in 2007 to put CUDA into all the company’s GPUs, enabling them to crunch data in addition to handling 3D graphics. “Confronting our mistake and, with humility, asking for help saved NVIDIA,” he said. Rapid changes in the industry forced NVIDIA to give up the contract in a near-death brush with bankruptcy, which Sega’s leadership helped avert. The first involved a key early contract the company won to help Sega build a gaming console. “At NVIDIA, I experienced failures - great big ones. “I was … successful - until I started NVIDIA,” he said. He called them instrumental in helping forge NVIDIA’s character during its three-decade journey from a three-person gaming-graphics startup to a global AI leader worth nearly a trillion dollars. Huang, who moved from Taiwan when he was young, recognized his parents in the audience, and shared three stories of initial failures and retreat. “Remember, either you are running for food or you are running from becoming food. Don’t walk,” Huang said, having swapped his signature black leather jacket for a black graduation robe, with the school’s plum-blossom emblem highlighting a royal blue, white and aqua collar. “Whatever it is, run after it like we did.

Whatever you pursue, he told the 10,000 graduates of the island’s premier university, do it with passion and conviction - and stay humble enough to learn the hard lessons that await. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today urged graduates of National Taiwan University to run hard to seize the unprecedented opportunities that AI will present, but embrace the inevitable failures along the way. “You are running for food, or you are running from becoming food.

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