Nvidia CEO Gifted Powerful AI Supercomputer to Jumpstart OpenAI's Research
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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, donated the first ever AI supercomputer to Elon Musk's OpenAI in 2016 to help advance AI research. He hand-delivered it to Musk.
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The supercomputer, called DGX-1, was designed by Nvidia specifically for AI computing and accelerated OpenAI's research.
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OpenAI planned to use the DGX-1 for large language models, which became the foundation for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools.
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Huang decided to build the DGX-1 after seeing new AI techniques in 2012 that opened up new possibilities for software programming.
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Nvidia positioned itself early on as a key supplier of AI computing power with the DGX-1, foreseeing the rise in demand for AI. Its stock has soared over 50x since then.