In the unfolding legal confrontation between Elon Musk and Sam Altman regarding the trajectory of OpenAI, Musk is currently striving to demonstrate his pivotal role in securing crucial hardware from Jensen Huang and Nvidia. Court records now include a 2016 email exchange, where Musk recounts, "I was asking Jensen for access to the first AI supercomputers they were making," referencing Nvidia's groundbreaking DGX lineup. He emphasized in the email, "This was the first AI supercomputer ever developed and it would make a huge difference to OpenAI if we could get one … I wanted to be clear with Jensen that this was — I’m emailing from my Tesla email here, but I wanted to be clear this is not a Tesla request.” The correspondence reveals that Huang subsequently promised, “I will make sure OAI is one of the first ones” to receive the advanced system.
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