{"id":998714,"date":"2026-03-18T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998714"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:29:23","slug":"what-are-ai-tokens-the-incentive-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-said-he-will-offer-engineers-worth-half-their-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/18\/what-are-ai-tokens-the-incentive-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-said-he-will-offer-engineers-worth-half-their-salary\/","title":{"rendered":"What are AI Tokens, the incentive Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he will offer engineers worth half their salary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a new idea for luring top engineering talent\u2014and it has nothing to do with ping pong tables or free lunches. At the company&#8217;s GTC conference in San Jose, Huang floated giving engineers an annual token budget worth roughly half their base salary, on top of their regular pay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year in their base pay. I&#8217;m going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplified 10X. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a new idea for luring top engineering talent\u2014and it has nothing to do with ping pong tables or free lunches. At the company&#8217;s GTC conference in San Jose, Huang floated giving engineers an annual token budget worth roughly half their base salary, on top of their regular pay. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year in their base pay. I&#8217;m going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplified 10X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}