# Jensen Huang on Delivering an Nvidia Supercomputer to OpenAI

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2086346377227907227
- Source account: [@elonmusk](https://x.com/elonmusk)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:42
- Published: 2026-08-09
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai) When I announced this thing, nobody in the world wanted it.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=3) I had no purchase orders, not one. Nobody wanted to buy it.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=7) Nobody wanted to be part of it. Except for Elon. He goes, he was at the event and we were doing a fireside chat about the future of self-driving cars.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=18) I think it was like 2016. At that time, it was 2015.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=23) And he goes, you know what?

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=26) I have a company that could really use this.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=30) I said, wow, my first customer.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=33) And so I was pretty excited about it. And he goes, yeah, we have this company.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=40) It's a non-profit company.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=43) And all the blood drained out of my face.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=46) I just spent a few billion dollars building this thing.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=50) Cost $300,000. And the chances of a non-profit being able to pay for this thing is approximately zero.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=57) And he goes, you know, this is an AI company.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=60) And it's a non-profit. And we could really use one of these supercomputers.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=66) And so I picked it up. I built the first one for ourselves.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=70) We're using it inside the company. I boxed one up.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=73) I drove it up to San Francisco. And I delivered it to Elon in 2016.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=77) A bunch of researchers were there.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=80) Peter Beal was there. Ilya was there. There was a bunch of people there.

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=85) And I walk up to the second floor where they were all kind of in a room.

[1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=89) It's smaller than your place here.

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=93) And that place turned out to have been OpenAI.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/43460VxLnsbL/en/jensen-huang-on-delivering-an-nvidia-supercomputer-to-openai?t=98) 2016. Just a bunch of people sitting in a room.