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Jensen Huang says the first AI supercomputer he ever built had exactly one customer on earth: Elon Musk. Back in 2016, he had just created a machine called the DGX1. It cost $300,000 dollars. He announced it on stage, and the room went completely silent since nobody understood it,...

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Jensen Huang on Elon Musk: "I was lucky because I had known Elon Musk, and I helped him build the first computer for Model 3, the Model S, and when he wanted to start working on autonomous vehicle. I helped him build the computer that went into the the Model S AV system, his full self driving system. We were basically the FSD computer version 1, and so we were already working together. And when I announced DGX-1, nobody in the world wanted it. I had no purchase orders, not one. Nobody wanted to buy it. Nobody wanted to be part of it. Except for Elon. He goes 'You know what, I have a company that could really use this.' I said, wow, my first customer. And he goes, it's an AI company, and it's a nonprofit and and we could really use one of these supercomputers. I boxed one up, I drove it up to San Francisco, and I delivered to the Elon in 2016."
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Jensen Huang on Elon Musk: "I was lucky because I had known Elon Musk, and I helped him build the first computer for Model 3, the Model S, and when he wanted to start working on autonomous vehicle. I helped him build the computer that went into the the Model S AV system, his full self driving system. We were basically the FSD computer version 1, and so we were already working together. And when I announced DGX-1, nobody in the world wanted it. I had no purchase orders, not one. Nobody wanted to buy it. Nobody wanted to be part of it. Except for Elon. He goes 'You know what, I have a company that could really use this.' I said, wow, my first customer. And he goes, it's an AI company, and it's a nonprofit and and we could really use one of these supercomputers. I boxed one up, I drove it up to San Francisco, and I delivered to the Elon in 2016."

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1,164,551 views • 8 months ago

Jensen Huang just told the story of how Elon Musk became NVIDIA’s very first customer for their powerful AI supercomputer - when literally nobody else in the world wanted it “When I announced this thing, nobody wanted to buy it. Not one purchase order Except for Elon He was at the 2015 event. Told me his company could really use it I got excited… until he said it was a non-profit company All the blood drained out of my face In 2016, I personally boxed it up and delivered the first one to a tiny room in San Francisco It was OpenAI Just a handful of researchers - Pieter Abbeel, Ilya Sutskever, and the team were all there” Elon backed AI when almost no one else believed
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Jensen Huang just told the story of how Elon Musk became NVIDIA’s very first customer for their powerful AI supercomputer - when literally nobody else in the world wanted it “When I announced this thing, nobody wanted to buy it. Not one purchase order Except for Elon He was at the 2015 event. Told me his company could really use it I got excited… until he said it was a non-profit company All the blood drained out of my face In 2016, I personally boxed it up and delivered the first one to a tiny room in San Francisco It was OpenAI Just a handful of researchers - Pieter Abbeel, Ilya Sutskever, and the team were all there” Elon backed AI when almost no one else believed

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20,565,266 views • 6 months ago

Jensen Huang just told the story of how the AI revolution started with one customer, one box, and a second-floor room nobody thought twice about. Nobody on Earth wanted it. Huang: “When I announced this thing, nobody in the world wanted it. I had no purchase orders. Not one.” Nvidia had spent billions building the DGX-1. The first AI supercomputer purpose-built for deep learning. $300,000 per unit. The entire technology industry looked at it and passed. Every hyperscaler. Every research lab. Every Fortune 500 with a machine learning team. Not one purchase order. Then Elon Musk found Huang at a fireside chat in 2015. Huang: “He goes, ‘You know what? I have a company that could really use this.’” His first customer. His only customer. Then Musk finished the sentence. Huang: “He goes, ‘It’s a non-profit company.’ And all the blood drained out of my face.” Billions in R&D. A $300,000 machine. And the one person on Earth who wanted it could not pay for it. Huang built it anyway. Huang: “I boxed one up. I drove it up to San Francisco and I delivered it to Elon in 2016.” Not shipped. Not handed off to a freight company. The CEO of Nvidia personally boxed the first AI supercomputer and drove it to San Francisco himself. That is not a delivery. That is a bet. Huang: “I walked up to the second floor where they were all kind of in a room. That place turned out to have been OpenAI.” Pieter Abbeel was there. Ilya Sutskever was there. A handful of researchers, one supercomputer, and a room nobody outside that building could have named. No campus. No valuation. No infrastructure. Just raw talent and one machine the rest of the world had already rejected. Huang: “Just a bunch of people in a room.” That room built ChatGPT. That room triggered a $200 billion industry. That room forced every government on Earth to rethink national security. It started because one founder saw what the entire market refused to see, and one CEO drove the weapon there himself. The trillion-dollar AI industry did not begin in a boardroom. It began with a box in the back of a car, a non-profit that could not afford it, and a bet that every serious person in technology thought was insane. The market was unanimous. The market was wrong.
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Jensen Huang just told the story of how the AI revolution started with one customer, one box, and a second-floor room nobody thought twice about. Nobody on Earth wanted it. Huang: “When I announced this thing, nobody in the world wanted it. I had no purchase orders. Not one.” Nvidia had spent billions building the DGX-1. The first AI supercomputer purpose-built for deep learning. $300,000 per unit. The entire technology industry looked at it and passed. Every hyperscaler. Every research lab. Every Fortune 500 with a machine learning team. Not one purchase order. Then Elon Musk found Huang at a fireside chat in 2015. Huang: “He goes, ‘You know what? I have a company that could really use this.’” His first customer. His only customer. Then Musk finished the sentence. Huang: “He goes, ‘It’s a non-profit company.’ And all the blood drained out of my face.” Billions in R&D. A $300,000 machine. And the one person on Earth who wanted it could not pay for it. Huang built it anyway. Huang: “I boxed one up. I drove it up to San Francisco and I delivered it to Elon in 2016.” Not shipped. Not handed off to a freight company. The CEO of Nvidia personally boxed the first AI supercomputer and drove it to San Francisco himself. That is not a delivery. That is a bet. Huang: “I walked up to the second floor where they were all kind of in a room. That place turned out to have been OpenAI.” Pieter Abbeel was there. Ilya Sutskever was there. A handful of researchers, one supercomputer, and a room nobody outside that building could have named. No campus. No valuation. No infrastructure. Just raw talent and one machine the rest of the world had already rejected. Huang: “Just a bunch of people in a room.” That room built ChatGPT. That room triggered a $200 billion industry. That room forced every government on Earth to rethink national security. It started because one founder saw what the entire market refused to see, and one CEO drove the weapon there himself. The trillion-dollar AI industry did not begin in a boardroom. It began with a box in the back of a car, a non-profit that could not afford it, and a bet that every serious person in technology thought was insane. The market was unanimous. The market was wrong.

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25,119 views • 5 months ago

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225,933 views • 8 months ago

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Jensen Huang reminds Elon Musk that in 2016, when NVIDIA unveiled the world's first AI supercomputer, only one person believed in it: "It was you."
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136,753 views • 5 months ago

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85,652 views • 1 month ago

🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAID LIVE ON CNBC: "THE ONLY THING I REGRET IS NOT GIVING ELON MORE MONEY. YOU REALLY WANT TO BE PART OF IT." HE RUNS THE MOST VALUABLE COMPANY IN THE WORLD THAT WORTHS $5 TRILLION HE DEFINITELY KNOWS SOMETHING!!
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🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAID LIVE ON CNBC: "THE ONLY THING I REGRET IS NOT GIVING ELON MORE MONEY. YOU REALLY WANT TO BE PART OF IT." HE RUNS THE MOST VALUABLE COMPANY IN THE WORLD THAT WORTHS $5 TRILLION HE DEFINITELY KNOWS SOMETHING!!

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133,608 views • 2 months ago

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Jensen tells Joe Rogan about delivering DGX-1 to Elon at OpenAI in 2016: “So [Elon and I] were already working together [with Tesla] and when I announced this thing, nobody in the world wanted it. I had no purchase orders…except for Elon. [He said it was for a non-profit] and all the blood drained from my face. I just spent a few billion building this thing and it costs $300,000 and the chances of a non-profit paying for this thing is approximately zero.”
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Jensen tells Joe Rogan about delivering DGX-1 to Elon at OpenAI in 2016: “So [Elon and I] were already working together [with Tesla] and when I announced this thing, nobody in the world wanted it. I had no purchase orders…except for Elon. [He said it was for a non-profit] and all the blood drained from my face. I just spent a few billion building this thing and it costs $300,000 and the chances of a non-profit paying for this thing is approximately zero.”

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102,848 views • 8 months ago

$NVDA CEO Jensen Huang says he wouldn’t be surprised if Elon Musk is the first to hit a gigawatt of AI compute. That’s the whole ballgame. $TSLA is quietly assembling one of the largest AI supercomputers on the planet to power FSD and Optimus.
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119,040 views • 11 months ago

AI is shaping the next chapter of global progress — and Saudi Arabia and the U.S. are partnering to lead it. At #USSaudiForum2025, HE عبدالله عامر السواحهAbdullah Alswaha, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang explore the collaborations powering the AI century.
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29,171 views • 9 months ago

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang today on Tesla's approach to self-driving: "Elon has a great advantage because his AI factory for his cars is fantastic, it has a lot of Nvidia gear in it. His AV algorithms are incredible. It's the best in the world. He has a very large fleet of cars on the road that allows him to collect a lot of data. I think he's in a phenomenal position."
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang today on Tesla's approach to self-driving: "Elon has a great advantage because his AI factory for his cars is fantastic, it has a lot of Nvidia gear in it. His AV algorithms are incredible. It's the best in the world. He has a very large fleet of cars on the road that allows him to collect a lot of data. I think he's in a phenomenal position."

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530,351 views • 1 year ago

JENSEN: ELON IS THE FASTEST BUILDER OF AI SUPERCOMPUTERS NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang: “I would not be surprised if Elon gets to a gigawatt before anybody else does. These AI supercomputers are complicated things. The technology is complicated. Procuring it is complicated because of financing issues. Securing the land, power, and shell, powering it is complicated. Building it all, bringing it all up. This is unquestionably the most complex systems problem humanity has ever endeavored. Elon has a great advantage that in his head all of these systems are interoperating and the interdependencies resides in one head, including the financing. He's the ultimate GPU. He has a great advantage there and he has a great sense of urgency, he has a real desire to build it. And so, when will comes together with skill, unbelievable things can happen. That's quite unique.” Source: Jensen Huang on the Bg2 Pod, September 26, 2025
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JENSEN: ELON IS THE FASTEST BUILDER OF AI SUPERCOMPUTERS NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang: “I would not be surprised if Elon gets to a gigawatt before anybody else does. These AI supercomputers are complicated things. The technology is complicated. Procuring it is complicated because of financing issues. Securing the land, power, and shell, powering it is complicated. Building it all, bringing it all up. This is unquestionably the most complex systems problem humanity has ever endeavored. Elon has a great advantage that in his head all of these systems are interoperating and the interdependencies resides in one head, including the financing. He's the ultimate GPU. He has a great advantage there and he has a great sense of urgency, he has a real desire to build it. And so, when will comes together with skill, unbelievable things can happen. That's quite unique.” Source: Jensen Huang on the Bg2 Pod, September 26, 2025

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129,978 views • 9 months ago

🇺🇸 NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG: WE HAD TO INVENT THE COMPUTER BEFORE THE PROBLEM EXISTED Jensen reflected on Nvidia’s early days, revealing how the company’s mission in 1993 seemed almost impossible, building a computer for problems that didn’t yet exist. He said they had to “create the problem” before they could solve it, a gamble that shaped modern computing: “When Nvidia started in 1993, we were trying to create this new computing approach. The question is, what’s the killer app? The company wanted to create a new type of computer that could solve problems normal computers couldn’t. But the applications that existed in 1993 were ones that normal computers could solve. We had a mission statement for a company that had no chance of success. I didn’t know that in 1993. It just sounded like a good idea.” Source: Joe Rogan
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🇺🇸 NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG: WE HAD TO INVENT THE COMPUTER BEFORE THE PROBLEM EXISTED Jensen reflected on Nvidia’s early days, revealing how the company’s mission in 1993 seemed almost impossible, building a computer for problems that didn’t yet exist. He said they had to “create the problem” before they could solve it, a gamble that shaped modern computing: “When Nvidia started in 1993, we were trying to create this new computing approach. The question is, what’s the killer app? The company wanted to create a new type of computer that could solve problems normal computers couldn’t. But the applications that existed in 1993 were ones that normal computers could solve. We had a mission statement for a company that had no chance of success. I didn’t know that in 1993. It just sounded like a good idea.” Source: Joe Rogan

Mario Nawfal

19,268 views • 8 months ago

Jensen Huang says building xAI's computing supercluster in just 19 days, from concept to training, was a "superhuman" effort and the only person in the world who could have done it is Elon Musk
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Jensen Huang says building xAI's computing supercluster in just 19 days, from concept to training, was a "superhuman" effort and the only person in the world who could have done it is Elon Musk

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297,452 views • 1 year ago

Jensen Huang on finally joining X in 2026: "That just shows you how introverted I am. It took me until 2026 to have the first post on X. I'm probably the last human on earth that did it." "But what I posted was too important to me, and too important to the industry, and too important to the world. And so I overcame my shyness and put my first thing out on X." Incredible how he built one of the most valuable companies on earth without ever posting once. What broke a lifetime of staying off the platform was a letter on open models he decided mattered enough to speak up for. Most of us post to be seen. Jensen waited until he had something worth saying.
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Jensen Huang on finally joining X in 2026: "That just shows you how introverted I am. It took me until 2026 to have the first post on X. I'm probably the last human on earth that did it." "But what I posted was too important to me, and too important to the industry, and too important to the world. And so I overcame my shyness and put my first thing out on X." Incredible how he built one of the most valuable companies on earth without ever posting once. What broke a lifetime of staying off the platform was a letter on open models he decided mattered enough to speak up for. Most of us post to be seen. Jensen waited until he had something worth saying.

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41,342 views • 1 month ago