Huang’s Hard Reset: Nvidia Boss Orders 100% AI Adoption, No Excuses

Nvidia may be the company powering the world’s AI revolution, but behind closed doors, even it has had trouble getting every employee to fully embrace the tech it sells. After the chip giant posted record-breaking earnings, an internal all-hands meeting reportedly took an unexpected turn when CEO Jensen Huang confronted managers who were allegedly telling their teams to scale back AI usage.

According to Business Insider, which listened to the meeting, Huang didn’t hold back. He was stunned that some leaders were discouraging employees from leaning into AI, asking bluntly, “Are you insane?” He pushed the message that every possible workflow, task, and process should be automated — not eventually, but now. Even if the tech is imperfect, he urged teams to use AI relentlessly until it becomes good enough to replace manual work.

Huang acknowledged there were pockets of resistance inside the company, but he reframed AI not as a job threat, but as the core competency that will keep Nvidia competitive as it rapidly scales. He reassured employees that automating tasks doesn’t eliminate the need for humans — pointing to Nvidia’s surging hiring numbers as proof. The company has grown from roughly 29,600 employees to around 36,000 in a single year, and Huang insisted they’re still “about 10,000 short” of where staffing needs to be.

While rivals like Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon are urging employees to adopt internal copilots and AI tools — sometimes tying adoption to performance — most of them have slowed hiring or trimmed staff. Nvidia, meanwhile, continues expanding aggressively to meet overwhelming demand for its data-center chips.

Some Nvidia teams have already embraced the shift. Engineers, for example, are working extensively with an AI coding assistant called Cursor, a move Huang highlighted as evidence of how rapidly AI can reshape daily workflows when used consistently and properly.

Huang himself is a heavy AI user. In past interviews, he’s described using chatbots as a “daily tutor,” relying on ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, and others for everything from technical problem-solving to creative tasks. Nvidia’s new deal with Anthropic suggests Claude may soon join his rotation too. Last October, Huang even floated the idea of Nvidia eventually becoming a 50,000-employee company supported by “100 million AI assistants.”

Inside Nvidia, the message is now crystal clear: AI isn’t optional — it’s the operating system of the company’s future.