Jensen Huang: NVIDIA Will Have 100 AI Agents for Each Worker

Jensen Huan, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang President and CEO, has said that he believes the business will have 100 AI Agents for every employee by 2036.

Speaking at NVIDIA GTC, Jensen told attendees: “In 10 years, we will hopefully have 75,000 employees, as small as possible, as big as necessary. They’re going to be super busy. Those 75,000 employees will be working with 7.5 million agents.”

This also marks an anticipated increase of more than 30,000 workers over the next ten years as the company scales up its AI capabilities. 

These AI agents, Jensen says, will be “working around the clock. So hopefully our people don’t have to keep up with them.”

An AI growth strategy

Jensen shared NVIDIA’s plan to scale up its AI use at GTC, which he predicts will lead to US$1tn in orders by 2027. 

This includes a focus on continuous innovation within the company to ensure customers receive a “continuous cost reduction of accelerated computing over time”.

Jensen said this creates a ‘virtuous cycle’, where new optimisations can be used by millions.

"This combination of dynamics is what makes NVIDIA architecture expand its reach, accelerating its growth at the same time driving down computing costs. Which ultimately encourages new growth." He says.

AI usage at NVIDIA

Jensen has long since been an advocate of employee AI use in the workplace. 

In a meeting reported on by Business Insider in November, he said: “My understanding is that Nvidia has some managers who are telling their people to use less AI.

“I want every task that is possible to be automated with AI to be automated with AI. I promise you, you will have work to do.”

The company has steadily increased its headcount as it develops its AI capabilities, from 29,600 people at the end of fiscal 2024 to 42,000 by March 2026.

Discussing the use of AI at NVIDIA, Jensen advised employees: “If AI does not work for a specific task, use it until it does, jump in and help make it better, because we have the power to do so."

"This will also fundamentally change the role of HR," Jensen says. In an interview with Citadel Securities in October, he said that he believes AI agents will one day be employed just like people - eventually going through a hiring and orientation process to absorb the culture of an organisation.

Jensen said this would mean “future workforces in enterprise will be a combination of humans and digital humans.”

Using AI in the workplace

Other businesses are also encouraging their employees to increase their use of AI. 

Accenture has reportedly started tracking its staff’s use of AI tools, according to an internal email seen by the Financial Times. The company says it says it will take this data into account when making decisions on who to promote. 

Discussing this move on the Rapid Response podcast, Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture, said: “This is Accenture, and how we operate. If you want to get promoted, you’ve got to do the things that we do.”

The company announced it was laying off 11,000 employees in September who could not be reskilled for AI related work. These layoffs reportedly focused on roles centred on tasks that can now be automated.