Jensen Huang

The DGX-1

was $300,000.

It cost NVIDIA a few billion dollars to make the first one.

And instead of two chips SLI, we connected eight chips with a technology called NVLink, but it's basically SLI supercharged.

Okay.

And so we connected eight of these chips together instead of just two.

And all of them work together, just like your Quake rig did, to solve this deep learning problem, to train this model.

And so we created this thing.

I announced it at GTC at one of our annual events.

And I described this deep learning thing, computer vision thing, and this computer called DGX1.

The audience was like completely silent.

They had no idea what I was talking about.

And I was lucky because I had known Elon, and I helped him build the first computer for Model 3, the Model S. And when he wanted to start working on 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 one.

And so we were already working together.

And when I announced this thing,

Nobody in the world wanted it.

I had no purchase orders.

Not one.

Nobody wanted to buy it.