Key Highlights:
- Jensen Huang urges employees to automate any task possible with AI.
- NVIDIA is expanding fast, adding thousands of employees amid AI demand.
- Internal teams are pushed to rely on AI tools daily to speed development.
NVIDIA is currently one of the biggest tech giants running the ongoing AI race and is part of the global AI boom right now. However, it is facing a surprisingly traditional challenge inside its own walls: getting its people to fully adopt AI. That’s according to Business Insider, which reported on a recent internal all-hands meeting.
Huang pushes employees to fully embrace AI and encourages to help train internal systems
According to the report, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took an unusually direct stance after hearing claims that some NVIDIA managers were advising teams to scale back their AI usage. During the meeting, Huang reportedly pushed back hard on that mindset and said it was the opposite of how he expects NVIDIA to operate.
His message to employees was simple: if a task can be automated with AI, it should be automated with AI, even if the tools still feel rough around the edges. Huang also reportedly encouraged employees to actively help train internal AI systems by using them frequently in their workflow. He told his staff to rely on the tools until they work, framing adoption as a responsibility rather than an optional experiment.
This news comes at a time when NVIDIA is scaling at an extraordinary pace. The company is now one of the wealthiest in the world with a $5 trillion valuation and has expanded from roughly 29,600 employees at the end of fiscal 2024 to around 36,000 just a year later. Huang says NVIDIA is still about 10,000 people short and that around 50,000 employees is where he believes the company needs to be. That scaling of the workforce, he argues, requires every team member to be very fluent with AI.
NVIDIA CEO doesn’t think AI is a threat
Huang also reassured employees that automation isn’t a threat, saying he is confident everyone will still have work to do. He mentioned that while AI handles repetitive tasks, new workflows and responsibilities will emerge. Well, NVIDIA isn’t the only company encouraging employees to use AI inside the office. Microsoft, Google, and Meta are doing the same.
But unlike those companies, which have reduced headcount or slowed hiring over the past few years, NVIDIA is expanding aggressively to keep up with historic demand for data center GPUs. That has pushed Huang to promote internal adoption of AI-powered tools not just as a productivity recommendation, but as a requirement.
According to the report, NVIDIA’s engineering team is already working heavily with AI. One example Huang gave is developers using Cursor, an AI-driven coding assistant that has repeatedly helped accelerate internal software development. Huang used this example to show that AI can meaningfully streamline day-to-day tasks when teams learn to rely on it rather than wait for “perfect” solutions.
Huang is big fan of AI assistants
For those who don’t know, Jensen Huang has openly discussed his own habits of using AI daily. He reportedly uses multiple chatbots depending on the task. He uses ChatGPT as a tutor, Google for technical questions, Claude for creation and ideation, and Perplexity for rapid research. Speaking of chatbots, NVIDIA also recently announced a partnership with Anthropic. So it may not be long before the Claude family joins his daily AI routine as well.
NVIDIA is also one of the companies that has U.S. government backing to strengthen America’s position in the global AI race with China. The influence of President Trump is significant in this effort. Recently, Jensen Huang even backtracked from comments suggesting China would win the AI race if the U.S. didn’t ease export rules. Only time will tell whether China or America ends up on top. But for now, it’s clear that NVIDIA’s CEO isn’t backing down on AI and is pushing his staff to use the technology that has been the driving force behind its success.
