{"id":225013,"date":"2025-10-19T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225013\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:34:14","slug":"jensen-huang-personally-delivers-dgx-spark-mini-pcs-to-elon-musk-and-sam-altman-separately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225013\/","title":{"rendered":"Jensen Huang personally delivers DGX Spark Mini PCs to Elon Musk and Sam Altman \u2014 separately"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, Nvidia\u2019s DGX Spark<\/a> AI mini-PCs were released to the masses. Symbolic of the splintered state of the AI industry, though, Nvidia\u2019s CEO Jensen Huang hand-delivered DGX Spark systems to Elon Musk and Sam Altman \u2014 separately. Altman and Musk once worked closely together, for a common cause, as co-founders of OpenAI, where Jensen once hand-delivered the original DGX-1 nine years ago, long before the AI boom began.<\/p>\n

The last time we saw such a star-studded DGX photo-op was when Huang hand-delivered the original DGX-1 to Elon Musk<\/a>, in his role as co-founder of non-profit OpenAI. Once partners seeking to further the development of safe AI for the benefit of humankind, Musk and Altman have become the fiercest of rivals. The rivalry isn\u2019t very sportsmanlike, either, with the pair now regularly trading barbs and public insults, and even engaging in some acrimonious legal tussles<\/a>. Since 2023, we have also had two distinct competitive AI products addressing the same market, albeit from different angles: ChatGPT <\/a>and Grok<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

\"DGX
\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Nvidia)<\/p>\n

Musk received his DGX Spark while wearing his \u2018Chief Engineer at SpaceX\u2019 hat. Huang quipped that he was \u201cdelivering the smallest supercomputer next to the biggest rocket,\u201d at the Starbase, Texas facility.<\/p>\n

You may like<\/p>\n

\n

\"DGX
\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Nvidia)<\/p>\n

We are reminded by the Nvidia blog<\/a> that the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip-powered DGX Spark packs 128GB of unified memory and delivers a petaflop of AI performance. It is claimed to have enough resources and muscle to run models with 200 billion parameters locally. Moreover, the Green Team\u2019s blog highlights that it has been nine years since Huang personally delivered the DGX-1 to Musk at OpenAI.<\/p>\n

Things have come a long way since the delivery of the DGX-1 9 years ago; amazing to see… https:\/\/t.co\/bgG5HTSzzcOctober 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Sam Altman also reminisced about Huang\u2019s previous little parcel. \u201cThings have come a long way since the delivery of the DGX-1<\/a> 9 years ago; amazing to see…\u201d mused the OpenAI boss. Altman was commenting on the President and co-founder (another one) of OpenAI, Greg Brockman’s, shared photo. The picture shows Huang nestled between Brockman and Altman.<\/p>\n

The Jensen-powered delivery service<\/p>\n

Huang famously started his career washing dishes, bussing, and waiting at Denny\u2019s<\/a>. Now he\u2019s back as a server, but on the menu are slices of AI-accelerating silicon, delivered in person to a select few fellow tech industry giants.<\/p>\n

Nvidia\u2019s Jensen-powered delivery service isn\u2019t standard, even though the DGX Spark has gotten a third more expensive since it was first announced. The Nvidia first-party DGX Spark MSRP is now $3,999, and it is shipping direct from Nvidia, Micro Center, and a number of partners.<\/p>\n

Get Tom’s Hardware’s best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n

The first batch of DGX Spark systems was also put into the hands of researchers at AI-processing hungry companies like Anaconda, Cadence, ComfyUI, Docker, Google<\/a>, Hugging Face, JetBrains, LM Studio, Meta, Microsoft<\/a>, Ollama, and Roboflow.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in the DGX Spark<\/a>, and its integrated Nvidia AI stack with full CUDA library support, the firm\u2019s partners are also cooking up systems, featuring their own special saucy tech – but they all look fairly similar. DGX Spark systems are being made and marketed by Acer, Asus, Dell<\/a> Technologies, Gigabyte, HPI, Lenovo, and MSI. You definitely won\u2019t get Jensen-powered delivery with these, though, you\u2019d be lucky to get a free MSI dragon plush toy.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

\"Google\n<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow Tom’s Hardware on Google News<\/a>, or add us as a preferred source<\/a>, to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds.<\/p>\n