小龙先生|Nov 13, 2026 23:20
Elon Musk's petition to bring Jensen Huang back to the Nvidia CEO position foreshadows their friendship from a decade ago.
In August 2016, Huang personally delivered a machine to San Francisco.
That machine was called the DGX-1. Costing $130,000, it contained eight Tesla P100 processors and 170 teraflops of computing power—equivalent to 250 ordinary servers.
The recipient was Elon Musk, then a board member of OpenAI.
At that time, OpenAI was a non-profit organization in Silicon Valley that nobody understood. Nobody knew what large-scale models needed, or what computing power meant.
Only Huang understood. He not only sold the machine but also personally delivered it.
Ten years later, OpenAI has become the global AI leader, Nvidia has built a five trillion dollar empire, and Musk's signature is prominently displayed on Huang's petition.
When Washington used a political witch hunt to oust Jensen Huang, employees were petitioning, and Musk was signing petitions.
But Nvidia's board of directors said: We're still looking for headhunters.
The person who delivered the machine back then was fired, and the person who received the machine back then is crying foul on his behalf.
And that $130,000 DGX-1 from back then has become the starting point for global AI computing power today.
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