By Brian Sozzi
Publication Date: 2026-06-01 13:08:00
Leave it up to Nvidia (NVDA) co-founder Jensen Huang to bring some clarity to AI investors at a conference filled with technical mumbo jumbo.
The news: Nvidia unveiled a PC superchip at its GTC Taipei event that rivals chips from Intel (INTC) and AMD (AMD), Yahoo Finance tech editor Dan Howley reported.
But several comments from Huang in his keynote also warrant attention, especially as investors continue to witness massive rallies in AI stocks like Micron (MU) and Sandisk (SNDK). We won’t say these are new thoughts from the always bullish Huang — more akin to tweaks to prior upbeat comments.
But they help to explain the unrelenting AI stock rally of 2026, which is partially built on expectations of future potential.
“There are going to be so many agents, the world is no longer limited by the number of people. Those agents are going to use more tools than ever,” he said.
He added, “Every company will have agents running inside. Every company will see that agents will need its own operating system. Every company is asking us, ‘How do we run agents safely? How do we build agents for our own workloads?’”
The analysis: Scores of studies have been released on the economic impact of AI. Some offer insanely positive projections, while others are more subdued. One level-headed snapshot comes from MIT professor Daron Acemoglu.
Acemoglu estimated that only about 5% of tasks will be profitably performed by AI over the next 10 years,…
