"Speaking at an all-hands meeting last Thursday, the day after the chipmaker reported another quarter of record results, Huang reacted sharply to reports that some managers inside the company were urging teams to dial back their AI use. Business Insider listened to the meeting. "My understanding is Nvidia has some managers who are telling their people to use less AI," Huang said. "Are you insane?""
"Huang told staff that Nvidia's own software engineers use AI coding assistant Cursor, and urged workers to keep relying on AI tools even when they fall short. If AI does not yet work for a particular task, he said, employees should "use it until it does" and "jump in and help make it better, because we have the power to do so.""
"Silicon Valley leans into AI Nvidia isn't alone in this strategy to use AI to build AI. Microsoft in June told staffers that using AI is "no longer optional" and is baking tools like GitHub Copilot into internal workflows, while Meta plans to factor employees' AI usage into performance reviews. Google in June also told engineers to start using the company's own Gemini AI for coding, and Amazon employees actually asked the company if it could adopt Cursor for coding purposes as well."
Nvidia instructs employees to embrace artificial intelligence broadly and to avoid fearing job loss from automation. The company directs teams to automate any task that can be handled by AI and encourages continued use of internal tools such as Cursor for coding, advising workers to use AI even when imperfect and to help improve it. Nvidia is hiring several thousand people in the recent quarter, remains short roughly 10,000 employees, and is opening new offices in the U.S. and Asia. Other tech firms are similarly embedding AI into workflows, performance reviews, and developer tools.
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