Dell CEO Michael Dell and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said agentic AI is driving massive gains in productivity, ushering in a new era of ‘useful AI’ for enterprises.

Dell Technologies founder, Chairman and CEO Michael Dell and Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told thousands of Dell Technologies World attendees that the agentic AI revolution is driving dramatic gains in productivity, opening the door to a new era of “useful AI” for enterprise customers.

Dell (pictured right) said the agentic AI revolution has taken productivity gains from generative AI that were 20 percent to 30 percent and driven that to an almost unimaginable 20 to 30 times productivity gains.

“Not long ago AI meant assistants that could write faster and summarize better and answer questions, but that was from the age of 20 percent to 30 percent productivity gains,” said Dell. “It was valuable and kind of amazing but really only the beginning. Now we’re deploying agentic AI autonomous agents that plan, reason, execute and adapt and close a loop.”

Dell said the time has come for businesses to “completely rethink and reimagine” workflows for the agentic AI era. “That is going to lead us to gains of 20 times and 30 times in terms of productivity improvement,” he said. “So who gets there first will rapidly distance themselves from all the rest, and the companies that do not become agentic AI-driven businesses I think will struggle to survive.”

Huang (pictured left), for his part, said the agentic AI revolution has taken a software job that used to take one month for a whole team to complete to one week.

“The amount of software work that we do in our company now supported by agents is incredible,” he said. “One engineer, a really good engineer today, is working with an agent, but a really great engineer in the future is going to be orchestrating a whole bunch of agents. We’re going to be orchestrating a whole bunch of sub-agents to do work. We’ve now arrived at the era of useful AI, which is just really exciting for all of us because until now it’s been novel.”

Calling Huang a “great partner and friend, a true leader and visionary of the AI age,” Dell said the next era of AI infrastructure is going to “built by deep partnerships between companies that are advancing accelerated computing and the companies that know how to deploy it across the real world.”

Huang, for his part, said: “I’m here every year selling Dell!”

Here are the boldest statements from Dell and Huang from the Dell Technologies World keynote address.

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