Over the past five years, the charitable foundation launched by Huang and his wife, Lori, has grown from $828 million in assets to more than $9.1 billion.

Huang spoke about how, in the past, computing was something only a few million people had access to, mainly those who understood programming languages. “We had to learn programming languages. We had to architect it.

A.I. debates heat up as tech leaders like Huang, Amodei, and Schmidt weigh in on its impact on jobs and productivity.