By Patrick Sanders
Publication Date: 2026-01-18 10:30:00
AI development hit an inflection point that will power Nvidia into the future.
Nvidia (NVDA 0.29%) CEO Jensen Huang delivered the keynote address at CES 2026, a leading annual trade show in Las Vegas for tech companies. It’s an ideal venue for Huang because the CES conference is centered around connecting the tech ecosystem and highlighting future innovations.
And few companies have been as innovative as Nvidia in the last few years. The company’s vaunted graphics processing units (GPUs) power, train, and run many of the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered programs offered today. AI has advanced to the point that it is now helping developers create new, more powerful AI programs; essentially, developers are building AI programs on the back of AI applications.
That’s why Nvidia stock has shot up by 1,000% in the last three years, making Nvidia the biggest company in the world by market cap. And that’s why its important to pay attention to Huang’s bold statements about the future of AI.
“The race is on for AI,” Huang said in his keynote, adding that, “Everybody’s trying to get to the next level. Everybody’s trying to get to the next frontier. And every time they get to the next frontier, the last-generation AI tokens, the cost starts to decline about a factor of 10x every year.”
He continued:
The 10x decline every year is actually telling you something different. It’s saying that the race is so intense. Everybody’s trying to get to the next level, and somebody is…
