Jensen Huang tells Carnegie Mellon’s class of 2026 their career starts at the AI revolution

NVIDIA’s CEO delivered the keynote at CMU’s 128th commencement on Sunday and received an honorary doctorate. The address framed AI as a reindustrialisation moment for the US, and pressed both engineers and policymakers to advance capability and safety in step.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th commencement on Sunday morning, telling graduates that they were entering the workforce at the beginning of the largest computing-platform shift in history.

“I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life’s work,” he said.

The setting suited the argument. Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science created the Logic Theorist in the 1950s, widely regarded as the first artificial-intelligence programme, and founded the world’s first academic Robotics Institute in 1979.

Huang made the lineage explicit.

“AI started right here at Carnegie Mellon,” he told graduates assembled in the ...