Elon Musk may have just called Jensen Huang his 'true friend.' An X user named DogeDesigner recently shared a split-image of the Tesla CEO and Nvidia CEO from 2016 and 2026, showcasing their decade-long friendship with Huang in his signature leather jacket. The post was captioned: 'The most important thing in life is having true friends.' Musk reshared the post on his timeline with a single word: 'True,' effectively acknowledging the 'true friendship' between the two.
Tech Titans Bond Over Innovation
Huang and Musk are widely regarded as two of the greatest tech entrepreneurs of the modern era, with the two working in conjunction as Tesla vehicles run on Nvidia chips. The two have exchanged praises for each other over the years. Huang once called Musk 'the ultimate GPU,' adding that 'Even without a Neuralink implant, Elon Musk has a lot going on in his head.'
Huang Recalls Early Collaboration
During an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast last year, Jensen Huang talked about his relationship with Elon. He said: 'I was lucky because I had known Elon Musk, and I helped him build the first computer for Model 3, the Model S, and when he wanted to start working on an autonomous vehicle. I helped him build the computer that went into the Model S AV system, his full self-driving system. We were basically the FSD computer version 1, and so we were already working together. And when I announced DGX-1, 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 goes, 'You know what, I have a company that could really use this.' I said, 'Wow, my first customer.' And he goes, 'It's an AI company, and it's a nonprofit, and we could really use one of these supercomputers.' I boxed one up, I drove it up to San Francisco, and I delivered it to Elon in 2016.'
Musk's Admiration for Nvidia
On March 19 this year, Elon Musk shared an X post writing that he is a 'huge admirer' of Nvidia and Jensen Huang. In the post, Musk confirmed that Tesla and SpaceX would keep buying Nvidia AI chips in large quantities.
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