Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI ( www.cnbc.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16206338
KEY POINTS
- 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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