NVIDIA's Jensen Huang - Because it's able to do work, AI is valuable.
AI is now valuable because it does paid, useful work, making it the fastest-growing software business ever.
“We love people who are know-it-alls, but we don't pay them for it. We pay for people who do work.”— Jensen Huang
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang reframes AI's value around its ability to perform paid, useful work rather than just possessing knowledge, citing agentic AI billed hourly ($20-30/hr). He calls AI the fastest-growing software business in history because it now produces monetizable work, signaling an industry shift from capability to labor-replacement economics.