Do Workers Want to Be Paid in AI Tokens? Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang Says ‘Yes’

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Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang is bullish on a new employee pay incentive: artificial intelligence (AI) tokens.

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At Nvidia’s just completed GTC developer conference, Huang discussed the a new compensation model that would give engineers at the chipmaker AI tokens on top of their base salary, effectively paying them to deploy AI agents as productivity multipliers.

Huang said that tokens, or units of data used by AI systems, can be spent to run tools and automate tasks and are becoming a “recruiting tool in Silicon Valley.” The CEO elaborated that, “Engineers are going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year, their base pay. “I’m going to give them probably half of that on top of (their base pay) as tokens…”

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While the AI token proposal left more than a few people scratching their heads, Huang said that he envisions a future workplace where engineers and other employees oversee a fleet of AI agents capable of completing complex, multi-step tasks autonomously with minimal user input.

“I have 42,000 biological employees, and I’m going to have hundreds of thousands of digital employees,” said the Nvidia CEO at the GTC event. Huang added that it’s only a matter of time before Nvidia’s employees work alongside hundreds of thousands of AI agents and get at least a portion of their compensation in AI tokens. Though exactly what the tokens are and how work still needs to be worked out.

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Nvidia’s stock has a consensus Strong Buy rating among 41 Wall Street analysts. That rating is based on 40 Buy and one Hold recommendations issued in the past three months. The average NVDA price target of $274.16 implies 53.32% upside from current levels.

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