“You are entering the world at an extraordinary moment,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates as he delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th commencement ceremony on Sunday. “A new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning.”

“No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools — or greater opportunities — than you,” said Huang, addressing the assembled thousands on a rainy morning at Gesling Stadium on the university’s main campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “We are all standing at the same starting line.…