Jensen Huang says he'll give engineers "half of that on top of [their base pay] as tokens"

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has proposed adding a large amount of AI tokens to engineers’ pay—roughly half their salary in tokens—arguing that workers with token access would be more effective, according to remarks reported earlier this year. The idea contrasts with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s comments on the Cheeky Pint and Stripe podcast, where he questioned tokens as a useful business measure for AI services. Altman said customers still favor a fixed token count, even an inflated one, over a bill tied to an AI model’s completed work, because they want to know what they are paying for. The disagreement centers on how AI usage should be priced and whether tokens reflect value.