🗣 NVIDIA CEO Jensen huang when he delivered DGX-1 to Elon at OpenAI in 2016:
“When I announced this thing, nobody wanted it. I had zero purchase orders. Nobody wanted to buy it, nobody wanted to be part of it, except Elon. Elon says, ‘I’ve got a company that could really use this.’ I’m thinking, wow, my first customer. Then he goes, ‘Yeah, it’s a non-profit.’ All the blood drains from my face. I just spent a few billion developing this thing.
It cost 300K, and the odds a non-profit could actually pay for it were basically zero. He says, ‘It’s an AI company, it’s a non-profit, and we could r
“When I announced this thing, nobody wanted it. I had zero purchase orders. Nobody wanted to buy it, nobody wanted to be part of it, except Elon. Elon says, ‘I’ve got a company that could really use this.’ I’m thinking, wow, my first customer. Then he goes, ‘Yeah, it’s a non-profit.’ All the blood drains from my face. I just spent a few billion developing this thing.
It cost 300K, and the odds a non-profit could actually pay for it were basically zero. He says, ‘It’s an AI company, it’s a non-profit, and we could r
