Nvidia

Silicon Valley loves a good origin story. Garage startups, visionary founders, world-changing technology. What it doesn't love — or at least pretends not to — is when one of those founders allegedly spends two years running a $2.5 billion smuggling operation out of the company he helped build.

Jensen Huang stood on stage at GTC 2026 two days ago and called DLSS 5 "the GPT moment for graphics." He said it with the unblinking confidence of a man who has never once been told he was wrong — or at least, has never believed it.