Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini’s AI Picture Generator

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is in London, standing in entrance of a room stuffed with journalists, outing himself as an enormous fan of Gemini’s Nano Banana. “How could anyone not love Nano Banana? I mean Nano Banana, how good is that? Tell me it’s not true!” He addresses the room. No one responds. “Tell me it’s not true! It’s so good. I was just talking to Demis [Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind] yesterday and I said ‘How about that Nano Banana! How good is that?’”

It appears to be like like plenty of folks agree with him: The recognition of the Nano Banana AI picture generator—which launched in August and permits customers to make exact edits to AI photographs whereas preserving the standard of faces, animals, or different objects within the background—prompted a 300 million–picture surge for Gemini within the first few days of September, in accordance to a post on X by Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs and Google Gemini.

Huang, whose firm was amongst a cohort of massive US know-how corporations to announce investments in information facilities, supercomputers, and AI analysis within the UK on Tuesday, is on a excessive. Speaking forward of a white-tie occasion with UK prime minister Keir Starmer (the place he plans to put on customized black leather-based tails), he’s boisterously optimistic about the way forward for AI within the UK, saying the nation is “too humble” in regards to the nation’s potential for AI developments.

He cites the UK’s pedigree in themes as huge as the commercial revolution, steam trains, DeepMind (now owned by Google), and college researchers, in addition to different tangential expertise. “No one fries food better than you do,” he quips. “Your tea is good. You’re great. Come on!”

Nvidia introduced a $683 million fairness investment in data center builder Nscale this week, a transfer that—alongside investments from OpenAI and Microsoft—has propelled the corporate to the epicenter of this AI push within the UK. Huang estimates that Nscale will generate greater than $68 billion in income over six years. “I’ll go on record to say I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to him,” he says, referring to Nscale CEO Josh Payne.

“As AI services get deployed—I’m sure that all of you use it. I use it every day, and it’s improved my learning, my thinking. It’s 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’s experience. I have the benefit of using all the AI—how good is that?”

The leather-jacket-wearing billionaire, who previously told WIRED that he uses AI agents in his personal life, has expanded on how he makes use of AI (that’s not Nano Banana) for many day by day issues, together with his public speeches and analysis.

“I really like using an AI word processor because it remembers me and knows what I’m going to talk about. I could describe the different circumstance that I’m in, and yet it still knows that I’m Jensen, just in a different circumstance,” Huang explains. “In that way it could reshape what I’m doing and be helpful. It’s a thinking partner, it’s truly terrific, and it saves me a ton of time. Frankly, I think the quality of work is better.”

His favourite one to make use of “depends on what I’m doing,” he says. “For something more technical I will use Gemini. If I’m doing something where it’s a bit more artistic, I prefer Grok. If it’s very fast information access I prefer Perplexity—it does a really good job of presenting research to me. And for near everyday use I enjoy using ChatGPT,” Huang says.

“When I am doing something serious, I will give the same prompt to all of them, and then I ask them to, because it’s research oriented, critique each other’s work. Then I take the best one.”

In the top although, all matters lead again to Nano Banana. “AI should be democratized for everyone. There should be no person who is left behind, it’s not sensible to me that someone should be left behind on electricity or the internet of the next level of technology,” he says.

“AI is the single greatest opportunity for us to close the technology divide,” says Huang. “This technology is so easy to use—who doesn’t know how to use Nano?”