Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang argued that older Nvidia AI processors remain productive assets as H100 rental prices rose 22% in September 2026 to $3.28 an hour. The rebound supports the case that widely deployed hardware can continue generating revenue through inference, fine-tuning and other workloads after newer systems arrive, although the rate remains below the $7 to $8 charged at launch and could reflect supply constraints. The debate centers on whether cloud providers' five- to six-year depreciation schedules overstate GPU useful lives. Huang also said OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra was trained on more than 100,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems and that 400,000 GPUs were coming online next, after deleting an earlier post that cited 300,000 systems. Nvidia reported about $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue in August, guided to roughly $108 billion for the current quarter and said supply met only 70% of demand. The company agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion and was in talks to invest about $2.5 billion in Thinking Machines Lab.