Early days of OpenAI
Musk recalls OpenAI's early days with Nvidia's first AI supercomputer
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Elon Musk posts "Early days of OpenAI" alongside a quoted account of Nvidia's first AI supercomputer, which the quoted post says drew no purchase orders except from Musk. The quoted post says Musk asked for it for a nonprofit, and Jensen Huang delivered the $300,000 machine to OpenAI researchers in San Francisco in 2016.
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Jensen Huang once admitted that when NVIDIA unveiled its first AI supercomputer, nobody wanted it. Not a single purchase order. Except for Elon Musk. "He goes, 'You know what? I have a company that could really use this.'" But then came the twist: it was a nonprofit😂😂 The machine cost $300,000, and Jensen thought the odds of getting paid were "approximately zero." He delivered it anyway, driving it to San Francisco himself in 2016 to a room full of researchers who turned out to be OpenAI. Elon saw the value of AI computing when the whole world couldn't understand it. He's done it again and again, spotting the future years before everyone else, then backing it with action instead of words.
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