Jensen Huang

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And so 15 years ago, I was telling everybody that, hey, guess what?

We just learned the universal function approximator.

We just discovered the universal function approximator.

We could give it the answer for almost any function, and it could learn what the function is.

And for a lot of functions, you don't have to be precise.

And in fact, it's impossible to be precise.

And so most of the interesting problems are imprecise in this way.

And so,

The day that we realized we have a universal function approximator, the question then is, what does that do to the computing stack?

What does that happen to software?

What are the industries that this could impact?

So on and so forth.

Almost right away, we started working on computer vision.

Almost right away, we started working on robotics, self-driving cars, because...

that fundamental capability you could imagine solving some important problems in the area of computer vision and robotics.

So I think the big breakthrough was simply that this is much more foundational than AlexNet.

This is a way of doing software.

and the implications to the processor, the middleware, the algorithms, the applications, what I now describe as the five-layer cake, that entire industrial stack, I imagine reinventing altogether about 15 years ago.

And this is simply about asking questions, reasoning about things to first principles, asking questions like, if this, then what?

If this can get better, then so what?

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