After encouraging graduates to turn to their mothers and wish them a happy Mother’s Day, Huang drew a direct parallel between starting his career at the beginning of the PC revolution and graduates starting theirs at the beginning of the AI revolution, emphasizing that every major computing platform shift — PCs, the internet, mobile and cloud — had led to this shared moment.

“But what is about to happen now is bigger than anything before,” he said. “Because intelligence is foundational to every industry, every industry will change.”

As a result, no graduating class is better primed than the present one to press the advantage.

“For the first time, the power of computing and intelligence can truly reach everyone and close the technology divide,” Huang said. “Now it’s your time to realize your dreams — and the timing could not be more perfect.”