Nvidia and Jensen Huang took over CES 2025 with the RTX 50-series debut, but the hardware is a vehicle for AI ambitions.

Throughout the current AI boom, quantum computing companies have quietly been making advancements, offering previews as to what the next phase of technology could look like. Huang

Jensen Huang founded accelerated computing company Nvidia ( NVDA -0.02%) in 1993, and has served as the CEO and president ever since. Nvidia has achieved many breakthroughs under his leadership, but the invention of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999 was particularly momentous.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims quantum computing is decades away, but is it really? The quantum era isn’t decades away — it’s unfolding in real-time.

Shares of quantum-computing companies that skyrocketed in 2024 collapsed by double digits Wednesday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said practical uses for quantum computing were more than a decade away.

Quantum computing stocks have soared over the past few months. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently commented that the technology is likely still decades away from being useful, sending quantum computing stocks plunging.