{"id":226519,"date":"2025-12-05T00:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nobody-wanted-nvidias-first-ai-supercomputer-except-elon-musk-reveals-jensen-huang-fast-forward-and-everyones-desperate-to-buy-one"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:08:23","slug":"nobody-wanted-nvidias-first-ai-supercomputer-except-elon-musk-reveals-jensen-huang-fast-forward-and-everyones-desperate-to-buy-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nobody-wanted-nvidias-first-ai-supercomputer-except-elon-musk-reveals-jensen-huang-fast-forward-and-everyones-desperate-to-buy-one","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNobody Wanted NVIDIA\u2019s First AI Supercomputer Except Elon Musk,\u201d Reveals Jensen Huang; Fast-Forward, and Everyone\u2019s Desperate to Buy One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" title=\"Joe Rogan Experience #2422 - Jensen Huang\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3hptKYix4X8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA\u2019s CEO was surprisingly spotted on the Joe Rogan podcast, and one of the interesting stories he mentioned was how the interest in NVIDIA\u2019s first AI machine was almost nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>Jensen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3hptKYix4X8\">appearing on the \u2018Joe Rogan Experience\u2019 platform<\/a>, was something that I wasn\u2019t expecting at all, but it appears that NVIDIA\u2019s CEO has become a mainstream personality, not just at the AI front, but also for the entire tech world. Jensen Huang talked about various aspects of his life and the journey of NVIDIA over the years, but one of the more interesting statements was around how Team Green spent \u2018billions\u2019 creating the very first DGX-1 AI system, but when Jensen went out to the market, the interest around the machine was \u2018zero\u2019, until Elon stepped up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA\u2019s CEO was surprisingly spotted on the Joe Rogan podcast, and one of the interesting stories he mentioned was how the interest in NVIDIA\u2019s first AI machine was almost nonexistent. Jensen, appearing on the \u2018Joe Rogan Experience\u2019 platform, was something that I wasn\u2019t expecting at all, but it appears that NVIDIA\u2019s CEO has become a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}