Jensen Huang is the founder and CEO of NVIDIA. As of August 2026, he has made his first post on X, backing a joint letter that urges caution in regulating open-weight AI models, and has publicly credited Sega's mid-1990s investment with saving the company.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, has been at the center of several high-profile developments in mid-2026. On July 24, he made his first post on X, sharing a joint letter signed by 25 companies and organizations, including Microsoft and Meta, that calls for caution in regulating open-weight AI models. The letter argues that open-weight models strengthen safety and cybersecurity and support AI sovereignty, and that the world needs both advanced closed and open models. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google did not sign.
Earlier that month, Huang was the featured figure at an NVIDIA-Sega collaboration event held on July 15 at GiGO Akihabara Building 3 in Tokyo. There, he recounted a little-known history: in the mid-1990s, NVIDIA was developing the NV2 GPU for Sega's next-generation console, but after nine months realized its technology was wrong. Facing bankruptcy, Huang asked former Sega President Shoichiro Irimajiri to cancel the contract and provide financial support. Sega invested approximately $5 million, which allowed NVIDIA to pivot and eventually produce the RIVA 128 and GeForce line. Huang stated, "Without what Sega did for NVIDIA, today's NVIDIA would not exist."
The event also featured the world premiere of VIRTUA FIGHTER CROSSROADS running on an RTX Spark laptop, and NVIDIA and Sega announced a partnership to bring future Sega titles to the RTX Spark platform, which launches in autumn 2026. Separately, Huang's signed black leather jacket sold for $960,000 at a Sotheby's charity auction, about 16 times the initial estimate, with proceeds supporting the Edge Institute's youth programs.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made his first post on X on July 24, sharing a joint letter signed by 25 companies and organizations, including Microsoft and Meta, that calls for caution in regulating open-weight AI models. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google did not sign. The letter argues open-weight models strengthen safety and cybersecurity and support AI sovereignty, and that the world needs both advanced closed and open models.
Jensen Huang's signed black leather jacket, a trademark of the NVIDIA CEO, sold for $960,000 (about 155.8 million yen) at a Sotheby's charity auction. The final price was approximately 16 times the initial estimate. Proceeds from the auction, organized by Long Journey Ventures, will support the Edge Institute's youth programs.
On July 15, 2026, NVIDIA and Sega held an invitation-only fan event at GiGO Akihabara Building 3 in Tokyo, bringing together NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Sega Chairman Harunori Satomi, President Kunifumi Utsumi, former Sega President Shoichiro Irimajiri, and Virtua Fighter creator Yu Suzuki. Huang recounted a little-known history: in the mid-1990s, NVIDIA was developing the NV2 GPU for Sega's next-generation console (later the Dreamcast) but realized after nine months that its technology-quadrilateral polygons and forward texture mapping-was wrong. Facing bankruptcy, Huang asked Irimajiri to cancel the contract and provide financial support. Irimajiri agreed, and Sega invested approximately $5 million (about 500 million yen). That funding allowed NVIDIA to pivot to triangular polygons and inverse texture mapping, leading to the successful RIVA 128 and ultimately the GeForce line. Huang stated, "Without what Sega did for NVIDIA, today's NVIDIA would not exist." The event also featured the world premiere of VIRTUA FIGHTER CROSSROADS running on an RTX Spark laptop. NVIDIA and Sega announced a partnership to bring future Sega titles to the RTX Spark platform, which launches in autumn 2026. VIRTUA FIGHTER CROSSROADS is scheduled for release in 2027.
NVIDIA and Sega will hold a collaboration event on July 15 in Tokyo's Akihabara district. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will attend and unveil the company's new SoC, the RTX Spark. The event is billed as a celebration of the two companies' 30-year relationship, which dates back to the mid-1990s when NVIDIA's first graphics chip was bundled with a Windows port of Virtua Fighter. Attendees can enter a lottery for a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition. NVIDIA is also collecting fan memories of the partnership, with a submission deadline of July 12.