Jensen Huang visited Tokyo on July 15 for a NVIDIA-SEGA 30th anniversary event, where he met SEGA’s former CEO and a lead designer and thanked them for a roughly $5m 1995 investment that rescued the then-startup after a failed Sega chip project. Huang is scheduled to attend a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)-hosted physical AI event today; markets are watching whether NVIDIA will announce an alliance with Japan’s “physical AI model national team,” Noetra.

2026-07-16

Jensen Huang visited Tokyo on July 15 for a NVIDIA-SEGA 30th anniversary event, where he met SEGA’s former CEO and a lead designer and thanked them for a roughly $5m 1995 investment that rescued the then-startup after a failed Sega chip project. Huang is scheduled to attend a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)-hosted physical AI event today; markets are watching whether NVIDIA will announce an alliance with Japan’s “physical AI model national team,” Noetra.