This Part 3 (with a summary and comments by Joanne Z. Tan) is the last 10-minute segment of a 3-part recording of Jensen Huang’s 30-minute talk in Stanford University. (Here are the links to Part 2, and Part 1)
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Jensen Huang is the co-founder & CEO of Nvidia. As of today, Nvidia has a four trillion dollar valuation. It is the most valuable company in the world and in human history. Jensen shared insights for 30 minutes with a Stanford audience at the Asian American Pioneer Medal Symposium on July 26, 2025.
Joanne Z. Tan, brand strategist, thought leadership coach at 10 Plus Brand, Inc. was in the audience and recorded Jensen Huang’s entire talk, which is broken down into three parts, with her summaries and comments. (Joanne Tan did NOT use any AI to summarize or comment).
Part 3 Summary: Jensen Huang advised young people to learn how to reason and break things down to first principles. To know what the first principles are: “Go to school!” In answering the concerns about human collective intelligence of managing the collective intelligence of AGI, Jensen Huang stated that “… human generated knowledge and human generated data would today be 99%, in about 10 years it will probably be 1%. The vast majority of human knowledge will be generated by AI. It will be AI generated data that the other AIs learn from,…it’s going to be synthetic generated intelligence. …that’s just intelligence, it is not a big deal, It’s just data…that the amount of AI generated knowledge is to be incredibly high.”
Jensen Huang said this about AI: “You want the smartest friends? You want the most productive friends?…go engage AI as fast as possible, because they’re super, super smart and they’re going to help you solve problems.”
“It’s also the case that we want second opinions, and third opinions. I use multiple AIs at the same time solving the same problems. And I take the answers from one and I give it to the other one. I’ll make the second one judge the first one: What do you think about this answer?…And I ask each one of them to produce, you know, based on everything that you’ve now learned, why don’t you reflect on what I told you and what I gave you, and then give me a better answer. And so you notice I’m interacting with AI the way I interact with people, I want them on my side, I want them to work with me.”
Finally, Jensen reflected on the American melting pot, amazing opportunities, and the rule of law for both immigrants and Americans. He said it is a combination that is “SO delicate, … it depends on so many things working together, …. It is not a guarantee, … I really hate to see us squander that… I hope that we continue to protect that.”
Regarding the competition between China and the US, he said “competition is great, but conflict is less good.” He cautioned that what is going on between governments and countries ought not to be conflated with how individual American Chinese who are pursuing the American Dream are treated.
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(The interviewer, Xuedong Huang, is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Zoom.)
(Xuedong Huang:) So today we have a lot of young people, and they came here…
(Jensen Huang:) Go to school!
And the one thing that I was going to… I was going to leave with you, and I applied, I applied everything, with, with, with saying these things consistently to the young generation in front of me, I kept saying: Reasoning, breaking things back to first principles, – that IS the most important thing.
Now the question is, you can’t break things down to the first principles if you don’t understand first principles. No, you won’t understand why magnets are so important, if you don’t understand Maxwell’s Equation.
(Xuedong Huang:) That’s right, they attended school. Some them graduated, you know, the,
(Jensen Huang:) not ___, everyone _____a Stanford graduate,
(Xuedong Huang:) But they have a dream. So what is the practical, pragmatic advice you can offer to all these young people, they came here from all over the world, that they can really embrace AI, in this amazing, really disrupted era, because they are concerned about the collective intelligence of managing, without magic, the collective intelligence of AGI. This is coming, they see the train is coming. What is your practical advice you have for all the young people in the audience?
(Jensen Huang:) First observation, as you know, all of our collective intelligence is from, the, the data, the knowledge that was produced by people before us. And so we’ve been ingesting human, human data, human knowledge, to as a foundation of our own knowledge.
And, and the collection of more knowledge, when they, when you mix them together, and when, when they’re connected, somehow, derives other knowledge.
We’ve been absorbing human knowledge, and that’s what’s on the internet, was created by all of our ancestors, and all of each other.
Well, in the future, in the next ten years, I would think that human generated knowledge
and human generated data, would today, be 99%, I think about ten years it will probably be 1%.
The vast majority of human knowledge will be generated by AI. It will be AI generated data that the other AIs learn from, and, and synthetic data generation, we call it synthetic, it’s kind of like, you know, for, for us, it’s like calorie generated intelligence, it’s going to be synthetic generated intelligence.
That, that’s just intelligence, it is not a deal, it’s just data. I think that, so one, you observe that the amount of AI generating knowledge is to be incredibly high.
If that is the case, you ask yourself the second question, which is, if you’re building a team, you’re working with people, you want to have friends, do you want the most… You want the smartest friends? You want the most productive friends? You want friends, and colleagues, and teammates that help you the most?
If that’s, if that’s the case, then what you have to do is go engage AI as fast as possible because they’re super,super smart and they’re going to help you solve problems.
It’s also the case that, that we want second opinions, and third opinions. And, I use multiple AIs at the same time solving the same problems.
And I take the answers from one and I give it to the other one. I make the second one judge the first one: What do you think about this answer? And, and, I , and then I, after that mixing, and I ask each one of them to produce, you know, based on everything that you’ve now learned, why don’t you reflect on, on what I told you, and what I gave you, and then give me a better answer.
And so you notice I’m interacting with AI the way I interact with people, I want them on my side, I want them to work with me.
And and the important thing is, it is impossible to be a researcher in the future without AI, it’s impossible to be an engineer in the future without AI, it’s impossible to be a manager without AI, it is simply impossible to be a student without AI in the future.
And so engage AI.
(Xuedong Huang:) That’s quite intensive.
Finally, this is the last question I have. For those in the Asian-American community, they may have felt that they are unseen, or they are underestimated. And what is your advice?
(Jensen Huang:) Well, as you know, I, I’m, I AM the American Dream.
One of these days, if you look it up on Wikipedia, American Dream, it’ll just probably have a picture of me working at Denny’s.
And, my parents came to the United States when I was nine. They sold everything they had, put in their pocket, and came, rented an apartment. Neither had a job.
My mom, my mom was, was a maid, at a Catholic school. My father, got a job as an engineer. It was their dream that they would, they would bring us here so that we could get a proper education.
And and, because of everything that my father saw, on a business trip one time, and he, he could imagine that this would be a place, would, we would build the family. He would build the family, and we would build a life.
And they sacrificed and risked everything, literally, to come to a country that never, never been to. This is an insane idea. And back then, there wasn’t internet. It wasn’t like my mom’s going watch on YouTube, “That’s pretty good!”
Okay, so they, they, they took…they got on the airplane, and I, and we came, and, and, came to a really alien country, if you will, and they had to learn English here, and, and, my mom had to learn English.
Her English is still quite poor. But, her English, she, she had to learn English, and she taught me English!
And so, the thing that’s really amazing is that, this is the Chinese spirit for you: You can teach someone, you can teach your kids how to do something you have no idea how to do it yourself.
That’s a, a very, very big idea, it’s very big idea that, that you’re willing to, to, go on because you care about, you care about your family so much that you are willing to pretend.
But anyhow. Anyhow, here we are. I think there’s, there’s, there is… we need, we need to, we need to be really careful not to lose the single greatest brand of America, the American Dream means, immigrants risking everything coming here and mixing with, all the, all the people that are here before us, rule of law, trust, the ability to, to, take enormous risks, go to an incredible academic institutions like Stanford, get great education, be given a proper chance. Somehow, somehow, risk everything and start a company. And, and here you are, create the largest company in history.
And, and you can’t, you can’t underestimate, the the combination, the delicate combination, it’s not a, it’s not a guarantee, this entire system is SO delicate, and depends on so many things working together.
And I really hate, I really hate to see us squander that.
And I love that, I love that generations of, of, Asian Americans were able to come and create amazing. Look, if you look at, look at all of the world’s most successful companies, I think 50% of them came from India, you know, by Sundar and Satya and, right, Shantanu, and look at these amazing CEOs, running incredible companies.
And I love that, you know, I love that, that, this country has created amazing opportunities. And and so I’m counting on all of you, to carry, carry, carry the banner forward.
It IS the case, that one of the, one of the, the, the things that we talked about and, I’m rather troubled by it is, is, that the competition between China and the United States, if not, if not delicately framed, gets framed into conflict. And competition is great, conflict is less good.
And we need to be careful that our competition with China doesn’t, doesn’t, doesn’t change the social attitude about Chinese, and, and we’ve got to be careful that, that, that, we’re able to separate countries, and governments, and people.
And, and, in the history that I have been here, in 50, 50 some years I’ve been here, we were incredibly good at that, that there was a separation between competition of countries and the needs of countries and, and still have this incredible melting pot for all of, all of the people that so many people represented here, to be welcome, to be given proper, proper, opportunity, and to be able to do the things I have the privilege of doing.
And so I hope that we, we continue to protect that and, I count on, I count on all of you to continue to be the shining examples of the American Dream, and what immigrants can do.
(Xuedong Huang:) All right. Thank you so much.
(Jensen Huang:) Thank you very much, thank you!
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