Musk replies to ‘email’ where he asked Nvidia CEO for early unit of its supercomputer

2026-02-17 - 17:53

Elon Musk sought early Nvidia DGX-1 supercomputers for OpenAI in 2016. He emailed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to secure these powerful machines. Huang confirmed OpenAI would receive one of the first units. This early access was crucial for OpenAI's AI model development. The DGX-1 provided significant computing power for their research.