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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is in London, standing in front of a room full of journalists, outing himself as a huge fan of Gemini\u2019s Nano Banana. \u201cHow could anyone not love Nano Banana? I mean Nano Banana, how good is that? Tell me it\u2019s not true!\u201d He addresses the room. No one responds. \u201cTell me it\u2019s not true! It\u2019s so good. I was just talking to Demis [Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind] yesterday and I said \u2018How about that Nano Banana! How good is that?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
It looks like lots of people agree with him: The popularity of the Nano Banana AI image generator\u2014which launched in August and allows users to make precise edits to AI images while preserving the quality of faces, animals, or other objects in the background\u2014caused a 300 million\u2013image surge for Gemini in the first few days of September, according to a post on X by Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs and Google Gemini.<\/p>\n
Huang, whose company was among a cohort of big US technology companies to announce investments in data centers, supercomputers, and AI research in the UK on Tuesday, is on a high. Speaking ahead of a white-tie event with UK prime minister Keir Starmer (where he plans to wear custom black leather tails), he\u2019s boisterously optimistic about the future of AI in the UK, saying the country is \u201ctoo humble\u201d about the country\u2019s potential for AI advancements.<\/p>\n
He cites the UK\u2019s pedigree in themes as wide as the industrial revolution, steam trains, DeepMind (now owned by Google), and university researchers, as well as other tangential skills. \u201cNo one fries food better than you do,\u201d he quips. \u201cYour tea is good. You\u2019re great. Come on!\u201d<\/p>\n
Nvidia announced a $683 million equity investment in data center builder Nscale this week, a move that\u2014alongside investments from OpenAI and Microsoft\u2014has propelled the company to the epicenter of this AI push in the UK. Huang estimates that Nscale will generate more than $68 billion in revenue over six years. \u201cI\u2019ll go on record to say I\u2019m the best thing that\u2019s ever happened to him,\u201d he says, referring to Nscale CEO Josh Payne.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs AI services get deployed\u2014I\u2019m sure that all of you use it. I use it every day, and it\u2019s improved my learning, my thinking. It\u2019s helped me access information, access knowledge a lot more efficiently. It helps me write, helps me think, it helps me formulate ideas. So my experience with AI is likely going to be everybody\u2019s experience. I have the benefit of using all the AI\u2014how good is that?\u201d<\/p>\n
The leather-jacket-wearing billionaire, who previously told WIRED that he uses AI agents in his personal life, has expanded on how he uses AI (that\u2019s not Nano Banana) for most daily things, including his public speeches and research.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really like using an AI word processor because it remembers me and knows what I\u2019m going to talk about. I could describe the different circumstance that I\u2019m in, and yet it still knows that I\u2019m Jensen, just in a different circumstance,\u201d Huang explains. \u201cIn that way it could reshape what I\u2019m doing and be helpful. It\u2019s a thinking partner, it\u2019s truly terrific, and it saves me a ton of time. Frankly, I think the quality of work is better.\u201d<\/p>\n
His favorite one to use \u201cdepends on what I\u2019m doing,\u201d he says. \u201cFor something more technical I will use Gemini. If I\u2019m doing something where it\u2019s a bit more artistic, I prefer Grok. If it\u2019s very fast information access I prefer Perplexity\u2014it does a really good job of presenting research to me. And for near everyday use I enjoy using ChatGPT,\u201d Huang says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I am doing something serious, I will give the same prompt to all of them, and then I ask them to, because it\u2019s research oriented, critique each other\u2019s work. Then I take the best one.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the end though, all topics lead back to Nano Banana. \u201cAI should be democratized for everyone. There should be no person who is left behind, it\u2019s not sensible to me that someone should be left behind on electricity or the internet of the next level of technology,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cAI is the single greatest opportunity for us to close the technology divide,\u201d says Huang. \u201cThis technology is so easy to use\u2014who doesn\u2019t know how to use Nano?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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