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Jensen Huang told the story of how Elon Musk became NVIDIA’s very first customer for their powerful AI supercomputer “When I announced this thing, nobody in the world wanted it. I had no purchase orders, not one. Nobody wanted to buy it. Nobody wanted to be part of it. Except for Elon. He was at the event, and we were doing a fireside chat about the future of self-driving cars. I think it's like 2016, maybe 2015. And he goes, 'You know what? I have a company that could really use this.' I said, 'Wow, my first customer.' And so I was pretty excited about it. And he goes, 'Yeah, we have this company. It's a nonprofit company.' And all the blood drained out of my face. I just spent a few billion dollars building this thing. It cost $300,000. And the chances of a nonprofit being able to pay for this thing is approximately zero. And he goes, 'You know, this is an AI company. And it's a nonprofit. And we could really use one of these supercomputers.' And so I picked it up. I built the first one for ourselves. We're using it inside the company. I boxed one up. I drove it up to San Francisco, and I delivered it to Elon in 2016. A bunch of researchers were there. And I walk up to the second floor, where they were all kind of in a room that's smaller than your place here. And that place turned out to have been OpenAI.”