• Jensen Huang says he hopes Nvidia will be a 50,000-employee company with “100 million AI assistants.”
• Huang described a future in which Nvidia can use AI assistants in every division to increase production.
• Technology leaders, including Google and Salesforce, are also investing in AI agents.

Jensen Huang hopes that an army of artificial intelligence employees can one day help increase Nvidia’s productivity.

“I hope that one day Nvidia will be a 50,000-employee company with 100 million, you know, AI assistants in every group,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an episode of the “Bg2” podcast. published Sunday.

Huang described a future in which the tech giant will mass deploy AI assistants, also known as agents, in every division to improve production. AI agents break down a task into several smaller steps, each tackling a specific task to achieve a larger goal.

The CEO said he interacts with the AI ​​agents himself and that, like many other tech companies, Nvidia already uses agents for cybersecurity, chip design and software engineering.

“AIs will recruit other AIs to solve problems. AIs will be in Slack channels with each other and with humans,” Huang said. “So we’ll just be one big employee base if you will – some of them are digital and AI, and some of them are organic.”

Huang also said that while AI will change “every job,” its deployment in businesses can secure employment instead of harming it.

“When businesses become more productive thanks to artificial intelligence, it is likely that this will manifest itself in either better profits or better growth, or both,” the CEO said. “When this happens, the next email from the CEO is probably not a layoff announcement.”

Huang added that humans will be needed to choose among “billions” of problems and decide what to solve, while robots can later help automate solutions. This will lead to hiring more people as the business becomes more productive.

Nvidia, which makes graphics processing units that have recently exploded in demand, has become one of the biggest winners in the AI ​​investment craze. Huang, who started the company in 1993, has seen his personal fortune take off thanks to the company’s success: he is ranked 11th on the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index.

Huang joins a list of Big Tech executives betting on AI agents to get ahead.

In September, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the company was making a “significant pivot” to Agentforce, which allows users to create custom AI agents that can interact directly with customers. Agents are meant to be more advanced than AI chatbots and can be used with other Salesforce products.

And Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in May that the company was working to develop AI agents with more capabilities.

“They are able to anticipate multiple steps and work on software and systems, all to do something on your behalf and, most importantly, under your supervision,” Pichai said in May, a few days before the I/ conference. O of the company.

The AI ​​agent space is one that even startups are getting their hands on, with some creation tools allowing others to create agents, while other companies are creating agents themselves for various uses .