In this podcast, Motley Fool analyst David Meier and host Mary Long discuss Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's CES keynote, plus: All "the cool stuff that's coming," from personal supercomputers to self-driving trucks and AI-rendered worlds.

AI agents are quickly becoming part of the workforce, and as NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang pointed out at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week, companies are going to have to figure out how best to work with them.

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.

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.

D-Wave Quantum CEO Alan Baratz said Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is “dead wrong” about quantum computing after comments from the head of the chip giant spooked Wall Street on Wednesday.

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