At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs.
NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now AI agents are coming to Windows.
“If you look at the entire journey of our company, Windows was at the core of it,” Huang said, tracing back NVIDIA’s support for Windows and Microsoft over several decades. “If not for Windows there would be no GeForce.”
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang connected that history — and his long-term vision — to the agentic era Wednesday during a fireside chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hosted by Sriram Krishnan, a former senior White House policy advisor on AI at the Windows AI and Surface event, held at Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco.
“The thing that I really give Jensen all the credit for, quite frankly, is that consistency of vision of what this can be—not today, not tomorrow, but as a secular trend,” Nadella said. “And that’s what brings us to this moment.”
“The personal computer is the ultimate tool, it’s my ultimate tool, and for a whole generation of people, it’s our ultimate tool,” Huang said. “What happens in the era of agents, when the agent is on your computer? It is now your personal assistant.”
The event opened with Nadella before Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s EVP of Windows and Devices, walked through the Windows updates designed for the agentic era.
Turning Windows into a secure platform for agents, Microsoft announced general availability of Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), the OS-level infrastructure that lets agents run safely and persistently in the background, under operating system control.
Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-rtx-spark-microsoft-windows-event/