Earlier this week, Nvidia’s DGX Spark AI mini-PCs were released to the masses. Symbolic of the splintered state of the AI industry, though, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang hand-delivered DGX Spark systems to Elon Musk and Sam Altman — 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.
The last time we saw such a star-studded DGX photo-op was when Huang hand-delivered the original DGX-1 to Elon Musk, 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’t very sportsmanlike, either, with the pair now regularly trading barbs and public insults, and even engaging in some acrimonious legal tussles. Since 2023, we have also had two distinct competitive AI products addressing the same market, albeit from different angles: ChatGPT and Grok.
