- Jensen Huang says the era of ‘useful AI’ has arrived
- Nvidia CEO praises the speed and efficiency of new technologies
- Huang joins Michael Dell on stage to unveil new AI Factory hardware
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has once again voiced his support for increased use of AI in the workplace, highlighting the huge potential gains in productivity and efficiency for organizations around the world.
“Our business has always been fast, but it’s really fast now,” Huang said on stage at Dell Technologies World 2026 this week. “We have now arrived in the era of useful AI, which is why demand is going parabolic, completely parabolic.”
“What took months now takes weeks. What took weeks now takes days. And what took days now takes hours. Things that would have taken an hour, you and I expect instantly. That’s a big productivity hit, but a gigantic leap in computing requirements.”
“The new Jensen”
“What has really changed is that our ambition has changed,” Huang continued. “There’s no doubt that my ambition has changed. I wanted to be someone to do something, to make a contribution, but I was the old Jensen. The new Jensen: I have big ambitions now!”
“The amount of software work we do in our company, now handled by agents, is incredible,” Huang added.
“An engineer, a really good engineer today, works with an agent, but a really great engineer of the future will orchestrate a whole bunch of agents. We’ll orchestrate a whole bunch of sub-agents to do the job. We’re now in the era of useful AI, which is really exciting for all of us because up until now, it was new.”
Huang was speaking during his now traditional appearance at Dell Technologies World 2026, where he spoke alongside the company’s CEO and founder Michael Dell, who was also keen to highlight the benefits of AI in the workplace.
“Not long ago, AI meant assistants that could write faster, summarize better, and answer questions, but that was between 20 and 30 percent productivity gains,” Dell noted. “It was valuable and quite amazing, but it’s really just the beginning. We are now deploying agentic AI autonomous agents that plan, reason, execute, adapt, and close a loop.”
Now is the time for companies to “completely rethink and reimagine” workflows for the age of agentic AI, Dell continued, noting that this “is going to lead us to 20x to 30x gains in productivity improvements… so whoever gets there first will quickly distance themselves from everyone else, and companies that don’t become agentic AI-driven companies, I think, will have a hard time surviving.”
Huang and Dell also revealed a host of new enhancements to their AI Factory initiative, which will be bolstered by 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 10x lower cost per token than Nvidia Blackwell for large-scale agentic AI inference, alongside the new PowerEdge XE9880L, XE9885L and XE9882L servers – the first built on Nvidia HGX Rubin NVL8, supporting up to 144 GPUs per rack with 100% direct liquid-cooled compute nodes and up to 5.5x the performance of the HGX B200.
Dell concluded by calling Huang a “great partner and friend, a true leader and visionary for the AI era,” emphasizing how the next era of AI infrastructure will be “built through deep partnerships between the companies that are advancing accelerated computing and the companies that know how to deploy it in the real world.”
“I come here every year to sell Dell! “” Huang joked.
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