Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins X to hype AI
Jensen Huang joins X to hype open-weight AI models
Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, has just done something unexpected, the joined X (formerly Twitter). Until now, the CEO has been absent from the social media platform, giving him no voice there outside of Nvidia’s official social media accounts. Why did he join X? Well, his first post was to hype/promote open-weight AI models. Thanks Jensen…
Jensen Huang’s lack of an X/Twitter presence contrasts with Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO, who has been on the platform since 2017. Note that this was the same year that AMD launched Ryzen. While Nvidia fans can now @ Jensen Huang and ask him questions, I wouldn’t expect him to respond to anything.
Jensen’s first X post
To the disappointment of GeForce fans, Jensen’s first post was not about gaming or any consumer-grade product. As expected, Huang posted to promote AI, specifically open-weight AI models. So what are open-weight AI models? They are advanced AI models that people can use without training their own AI models from scratch. Anyone can download them, use them, and modify them. They give users more control, and if operated independently, users will not risk sending their data to 3rd parties or external servers.
So why promote open-weight models? The answer’s simple: doing so may help Nvidia sell more GPUs. Open-weight AI models can be used by anyone who can amass the computational resources to do so. Who can sell the AI server racks to enable that? Nvidia!
Open-weight AI models also diversify the AI model market. If the market can only rely on models from frontier model developers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google, it creates a market with very little competition. Jensen believes that open-weight models can lower the cost of AI. That said, part of me believes that Jensen’s angle here is to create an AI market outside of the big model providers. That would help Nvidia maintain sales should OpenAI or Anthropic go bust… Are either of those companies profitable yet?
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.… pic.twitter.com/t02bi51N4C
— Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) July 24, 2026
Huang’s motives
Jensen Huang has not joined X to answer questions, post memes, or interact with the GeForce community. That’s my guess at least. His first post is about AI policy. Specifically, he asks policymakers to act by “expanding access to compute for startups and researchers”. In other words, more datacenters, more datacenters, and more datacenters.
In my opinion, Jensen needs to remember that there is a memory shortage. He should be aware of how AI and datacenter buildouts have damaged the PC industry, the industry that made Nvidia what it is today. Where’s your call for more investment in memory fabs, Mr Huang? Where’s your investment in that? Greater memory availability would certainly get more compute into the hands of more people. Or do GPUs only matter now if they are rack-scale?
Signatories to Nvidia’s letter include Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Dell, Hugging Face, Palantir, Perplexity, Mistral AI, and more. Most of these companies would benefit from greater AI use, more AI datacenter construction, and no additional AI regulations.
If there is any good news from this, it’s that GeForce users now have a new X account to complain to when they have driver issues or a melted 12V-2×6 cable.
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