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"AI is the most powerful technology force of our time"

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A CEO doesn’t call something “the most powerful technology force of our time” to sound poetic. Jensen Huang is selling a worldview in which AI isn’t just another product cycle, but the master key that reorganizes every industry around compute. The phrasing is absolutist on purpose: “most powerful,” “force,” “our time.” It’s not about cleverness; it’s about inevitability. If AI is a force like electricity or the internet, then resisting it looks less like prudence and more like denial.

The subtext is corporate and geopolitical at once. Huang’s Nvidia sits at the chokepoint of modern AI: the chips and systems that make large-scale models feasible. Elevating AI to the era’s defining “force” elevates Nvidia from a successful vendor to critical infrastructure. That reframes regulation, export controls, and supply constraints as society-wide stakes, not quarterly inconveniences. It also nudges customers and governments toward a particular conclusion: invest now, build data centers, secure supply, or be left behind.

Context matters because this line lands in a moment when AI is simultaneously overhyped in consumer products and undeniably real in capital expenditure. Companies are spending like it’s a land rush; nations are treating compute like strategic capacity. Huang’s sentence compresses that frenzy into a clean moral: history is moving, and the smart money is on acceleration. It’s a pitch with the cadence of destiny, designed to make ambition feel responsible.

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TopicArtificial Intelligence
SourceCNBC interview/appearance with Jensen Huang discussing the impact of AI (approx. 2023–2024; widely quoted from CNBC coverage)
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Huang, Jensen. (2026, January 30). AI is the most powerful technology force of our time. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ai-is-the-most-powerful-technology-force-of-our-184731/

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Huang, Jensen. "AI is the most powerful technology force of our time." FixQuotes. January 30, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ai-is-the-most-powerful-technology-force-of-our-184731/.

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"AI is the most powerful technology force of our time." FixQuotes, 30 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ai-is-the-most-powerful-technology-force-of-our-184731/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Jensen Huang (born February 17, 1963) is a Businessman from USA.

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