Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the U.S. at age nine. Today, as the leader of the world’s most valuable company, he arrived ahead of his GTC Taipei event and Computex 2026 keynote on Monday, June 1.
Speaking with media on site, Jensen said, “Vera Rubin is the largest product launch, probably in the history of Taiwan. Each one of the Vera Rubin systems consists of almost two million parts, and it includes 150 different ecosystem partners here in Taiwan to build it.”
Vera Rubin, the platform for Nvidia’s next big AI chip, will arrive later this year and is in full production now. Huang’s lead position in AI chips has turned Nvidia’s into a Wall Street darling and made Huang into Taiwan’s biggest celebrity. Sadly, AI demand has also led to a memory chip shortage that has affected game graphics chips. That’s led to higher game hardware prices. Sadly, Huang is not showing up in Taiwan with a plentiful supply of graphics and game memory devices.
Jensen also stopped by to say hello at the Nvidia Meet-a-Claw developer community meetup, where hundreds of people gathered to build autonomous agents. There, he spoke about open source making AI accessible and explained that harnesses like OpenClaw are the operating system of large language models.
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Because OpenClaw is open source, it’s available for everyone to use and build their own AI agent. Huang described some of the ways OpenClaw agents secured by NVIDIA OpenShell can be of service for everything from software programming to marketing and content creation.
“It’s become a really, very powerful assistant,” Huang said. “The era of useful AI has arrived. That’s what this event is about, to show you what open source agents can do and then you can go create your own.”
Huang fielded a few questions from the assembled press, including the status of NVIDIA’s pending Taipei office. Huang smiled before offering his response.
“I think I’m going to give you an update on the headquarters this week,” he said. “It could be a secret … I might show you what the building is going to look like.”
Lisa Su, CEO of Nvidia’s arch rival AMD, is also in Taiwan. She’s a distant cousin of Huang’s, and she’s also making noise in Taiwan.