New Delhi, Jan. 21 -- The year 2025 marked the largest investment year in venture capital (VC) history, with over $100 billion invested globally, most of it flowing into AI-native companies, said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA Corporation.

He was speaking in a conversation with Laurence D. Fink, Chair and CEO of BlackRock, at the World Economic Forum 2026 in Davos on Wednesday.

According to Huang, this surge in investment reflects a structural shift in AI maturity. For the first time, AI models are good enough to support a full application layer, and those applications require large-scale infrastructure. As a result, significant capital is now being deployed to build the foundations needed to power the next phase of AI-driven g...