Nvidia's Huang pitches AI tokens on top of salary as agents reshape how humans work
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The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries. Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday floated a novel compensation model that would give engineers a token budget on top of their base salary, effectively paying them to deploy AI agents as productivity multipliers.
Tokens, or units of data used by AI systems, can be spent to run tools and automate tasks and are becoming "one of the recruiting tools in Silicon Valley," Huang said.
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