Nvidia CEO hand-delivers world's fastest AI system to OpenAI, again — first DGX H200 given to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman

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Jensen Huang with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman
(Image credit: Greg Brockman on Twitter / X) (Image credit: Greg Brockman on X / Twitter)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took on a new side gig as a courier, delivering the world's first DGX H200 ever seen in the wild to OpenAI's Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. The trio shared a picture of their meeting on Twitter/X, commemorating a successful Jensen Huang delivery to OpenAI. 

The DGX H200 is a brand-new and rocket-fast GPU-based server from Nvidia, holding the new H200 Tensor Core GPU inside a powerful enterprise-grade server shell. The Hopper-based H200 GPU represents a generational step forward from its little brother, the H100, with the newer card now featuring 141 GB of memory running at 4.8 TB/s compared to the H100's measly 80 GB at 3.3 TB/s. Nvidia calls its H200 "the world’s most powerful GPU for supercharging AI workloads", a claim that few could refute.

Huang signed the supercomputer with the epithet "to advance AI, computing, and humanity". The signature and photo op bring to mind a very similar scene from 2016 when Huang had a very similar delivery for OpenAI - the world's first DGX-1 server handed off to an excited Elon Musk. Back when Musk was a proud member and co-founder of OpenAI, he happily received the DGX-1, also signed with Huang's cheers "to the future of computing and humanity". The gift of the DGX-1 was hailed by Elon and many members of the OpenAI team as a boon that accelerated their research by weeks, and the astronomical leap in performance up to the DGX H200 could have a similar impact. 

But those were happier times; today, Musk is in the process of suing OpenAI. He alleges claims of breaking their founding contract by turning OpenAI from a non-profit into an aggressive for-profit company, and for exacerbating the potential dangers of artificial general intelligence (AGI), calling the prospect of AGI "a grave threat to humanity.” It seems there is no love lost between Musk and Huang today, a warm relief for fans of the CEO of leather jackets/Nvidia and the man who killed Twitter. Time will tell if Musk will receive a free AI supercomputer of his own for training his pet Grok's next generation.

Dallin Grimm
Dallin Grimm
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Dallin Grimm is a contributing writer for Tom's Hardware. He has been building and breaking computers since 2017, serving as the resident youngster at Tom's. From APUs to RGB, Dallin has a handle on all the latest tech news. 

8 Comments Comment from the forums
  • kealii123
    "The man who killed twitter" Really? Am I reading Endgaget?
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  • thisisaname
    kealii123 said:
    "The man who killed twitter" Really? Am I reading Endgaget?
    Was it alive in the first place?
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  • vanadiel007
    Does it come with a free leather jacket?
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  • Neilbob
    Huang signed the supercomputer with the epithet "to advance AI, computing, and humanity".
    And profit. I wonder why he forgot to mention the profit.
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  • sonichedgehog360
    thisisaname said:
    Was it alive in the first place?
    *Always has been meme*

    And yes, it is. Engagement is up and it is still widely used online, and its original features still work well and new ones are always coming unlike Fa(r)cebook‘s broken profile likes or broken Meta AI.
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  • thisisaname
    sonichedgehog360 said:
    *Always has been meme*

    And yes, it is. Engagement is up and it is still widely used online, and its original features still work well and new ones are always coming unlike Fa(r)cebook‘s broken profile likes or broken Meta AI.
    That it exist and still is running was not what I was talking about. X is about as alive as a Zombie, it is not making a profit, unlike (your making me say something nice about) Facebook :( who make Billions.
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  • watzupken
    One sample for free. Rest buyers will pay through their noses. Good way to market.
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  • M0rtis
    He probably went in personally to cut a deal with Altman to invest in nVidia instead of setting up his own fab for making AI chips or something along those lines. Win-win for nVidia and Altman
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