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Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI

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Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI

NewsEnglish • 6 months ago

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Emails circulated inside Nvidia show that Elon Musk was telling the chipmaker to prioritize shipments of GPUs to X and xAI ahead of Tesla.

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Emails circulated inside Nvidia and obtained by CNBC show that Elon Musk told the chipmaker to prioritize shipments of processors to X and xAI ahead of Tesla.
Musk has said he can grow Tesla into a major player in artificial intelligence and that the company is spending heavily on Nvidia’s AI processors.
By ordering Nvidia to let X jump the line ahead of Tesla, Musk delayed the automaker’s receipt of over $500 million in processors by months.

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@CaptainSpaceman
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63•6 months ago
Maybe they can kick him off the board for this 🤣
- Flying Squid
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  35•6 months ago
  Good luck with that. The board are all sycophants.
  - @pivot_root
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    9•6 months ago
    Everyone who hasn’t jumped ship is either a sycophant or a ~~brown-nosed moron~~ fanboy at this point.

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