NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Declares AGI Is Near, Sparking Debate and Record $89B Sales
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang claims AGI will arrive by 2026, revealing OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra was trained on Blackwell chips. Despite record $89B quarterly sales, OpenAI remains cautious amid reports of scaled-back chip purchases.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has sent shockwaves through the global technology industry with an announcement that no artificial intelligence laboratory has yet dared to release. In a recent post, Huang revealed that OpenAI's newest ChatGPT model was trained on his company's chips, effectively declaring that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—software capable of performing almost any human cognitive task—is already here.
While the most optimistic forecasts previously pointed to 2029 and beyond, Huang has moved the timeline forward to 2026, leaving observers stunned by the rapid leap. Behind this dramatic statement lies a massive engineering shift that cost NVIDIA billions of dollars. The company transitioned from selling eight chips on a single board to a massive package of 72 connected chips operating together as a single "giant brain."
The Training Mystery and the Numbers Game
According to Huang, the new OpenAI model was trained on no fewer than 100,000 of these packages. However, a digital mystery has emerged: in his original post, Huang cited a staggering figure of 300,000 packages, only to quickly delete it and republish the lower number. NVIDIA has so far declined to explain this sudden correction, raising numerous questions.
In his post, Huang wrote:
"GPT-6 Astra, trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72. From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. 400K GPUs coming online next."
Unprecedented Financial Gains
The commercial motivation behind these bold declarations becomes clear when looking at NVIDIA's unprecedented financial performance. In just three months, the company sold AI computers worth $89 billion, more than double the amount recorded during the same period last year.
During an investor call, Huang summarized the dynamic:
"Today, computing power equals revenue."
This statement underscores why promoting the AGI narrative remains highly lucrative for NVIDIA, especially as the company reaps billions from the market's belief in this vision.
OpenAI's Caution and the Israeli Connection
Despite Huang's unbridled enthusiasm, OpenAI is not rushing to celebrate and maintains a cautious stance. OpenAI President Greg Brockman has declined to declare that AGI has indeed been achieved, leaving Huang as the sole prominent executive insisting on this milestone.
Furthermore, the collaboration between the two giants appears smaller than publicly assumed. A massive $100 billion deal announced by the companies in 2025 was never actually signed. According to a report by BeInCrypto last June, OpenAI has quietly begun cutting back on its chip purchases. Although Huang concluded his post by promising that another 400,000 GPUs will soon come online, financial markets are expected to monitor actual sales figures far more closely than speculative AGI projections.
NVIDIA's aggressive push to expand its AI footprint also includes a direct Israeli angle. The chip giant recently selected Israeli content creators Noa Zilberman and Lina Platt to help communicate the next technological revolution to the local market. Chosen as official NVIDIA ambassadors, the two will fly to the GTC Berlin conference, scheduled for October 20–22, 2026, which is shaping up to be one of the year's most influential tech summits.
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