Quote of the day by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: "Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software" A prophetic statement predicting the impending death of software
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Tue, 26 May 2026 22:00:00 +0000
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With SaaSmageddon underway, we remember a decade-old insight into the future of the software industry
FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Jensen Huang has achieved rockstar status in the technology world for leading his company through one
of the fastest and most exciting transitions. NVIDIA , the once plucky GPU maker, has now become central to the AI buildout, and its CEO has long anticipated the transformative potential of this technology. "Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software" Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, May 2017 Signaling NVIDIA's AI pivot Mere weeks before Google scientists released their seminal paper on AI transformer technology, Huang made this comment in an interview with MIT Technology Review almost nine years ago. The company, popularized thanks to its consumer GPUs, was in the midst of laying the foundations for its AI-fueled ascent. It had just hosted the "world's premier AI conference" in San Jose and was exploring how its GPUs could make
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and in years gone by. Read the full series here . This quote references the way software companies surged in relevance at the time. With increased access to computing power, the ongoing cloud revolution, and widespread use of machine learning, SaaS companies penetrated the heart of enterprises and proved truly transformative. But, as Huang forecast at the time, their reign would not be long-lived. Does SaaSmageddon have legs? It feels like every Anthropic press release delivers yet another body blow to the SaaS sector. SaaSmageddon the phenomenon in which disruption in the software market is being driven by emerging AI capabilities is now underway as agentic AI is on the rise.
Was Huang to know exactly how this would play out nine years on? It's plausible, but today's market sensitivities are also impacted by global
events and other developments that were impossible to foresee at the time.
In 2026 and beyond, NVIDIA remains central to the ongoing AI buildout, with the industry clamoring for its technologies, and its hardware is flooding
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The software sector finds itself on its knees but far from out for the
count. It remains to be seen whether these companies can adapt to the new normal, or whether AI will "eat them" as Huang suggested nearly a decade ago.
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