Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: “The future will be autonomous; within a few years, all car companies will be producing the AI ​​that powers their cars.”

Who would have told us just a few years ago that Nvidia would be dedicated to the automotive industry? But, as Lisa said in an episode of The Simpsons , "everything has a chip." The computer components company has seen a powerful market in this. Starting, of course, with AI applied to the automotive industry. Nvidia has been working for some time on mobility solutions for the future of autonomous cars, such as Nvidia Drive AGX. And, in fact, it has several alliances with manufacturers such as General Motors , Mercedes-Benz, Lucid Motors , Rivian, Volvo , Toyota, BYD, Nio, and Xiaomi. What a portfolio.

With this in mind, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is proud of his achievements and gives a glimpse into what the future will be like : “The world will be full of AI factories. The future will be autonomous or semi-autonomous, and when that happens, you need software and you'll have to produce it. This is very clear when you look at car companies. In a few years, all of them will have to produce the programming (AI) that runs their cars,” he stated during his speech at the Hill and Valley technology forum. In other words, AI will create, produce, and control your car in the same way that your refrigerator does your shopping.

But if there's one thing Huang is clear about, it's that it's a very expensive technology: "It's a billion-dollar factory," he recalls. That's why more and more automotive companies are forgoing the idea of ​​creating their own ecosystem and instead relying on Nvidia to do so, thus contributing to its stock market boom.

For Huang, though, his worldview goes beyond producing software . With frightening foresight, he predicts the future of robotics based on his experience with self-driving cars: “A self-driving car is a robot. It took us about 10 years. Now Waymo is in cities across the country and doing fantastically ,” the executive said.

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And he goes further: “ Robots will take less time . The reason is that we'll be able to limit the environments where they operate; they won't have to be as versatile as a car . Let's say it will take five years. In that time, they'll only have to improve on the software side, on the AI ​​side. But that technology is already quite available,” says the Nvidia CEO.

Although not everyone in the tech world is as optimistic as Jensen Huang. Ali Kani, general manager of Nvidia's vehicle division, told Autocar just a few months ago that they were "nowhere near" achieving a 100% autonomous car: "It won't appear in this decade. It will be a true marvel in the next, but it 's just incredibly complicated ," he reasoned. Be that as it may, we are witnessing the first steps of a new industrial revolution . Only time will tell how far we'll go.