Catenaa, Sunday, December 14, 2025- The Financial Times has named Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang its Person of the Year for his role in the AI transformation.
Huang has been at the centre of one of the largest investment programs ever conducted by the private sector, one that has both bolstered the US economy and sustained a stock market boom.
And he has been a driving force in the adoption of a technology that has the capacity to reshape entire industries.
Nvidia is now the most valuable company in the world, and, at one stage over the course of the year, it became the first to have a market capitalization of more than $5 trillion.
Huang himself is set to end 2025 with a net worth of more than $160 billion, putting him in the ranks of the world’s 10 richest people. Even if it turns out that current valuations are inflated and the share price were to fall by half, Nvidia would still be worth three times more than at the end of 2021.
Huang would be the first to warn of the dangers of complacency. Chinese chipmaker Huawei has made impressive strides in advanced chip design, while some of the biggest tech companies, led by Google, are developing their own chips in competition with Nvidia.
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT triggered a global AI race, however, Nvidia’s position at the forefront of AI chipmaking has proved remarkably resilient.
If all this newfound prominence has pushed Huang into a public role as tech prophet and visionary, he is more than ready to take up the mantle.
He calls Nvidia “one of the most consequential technology companies in history”, a statement made with the matter-of-factness that characterises many of his pronouncements.
