New Delhi: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made a symbolic delivery this week , hand-delivering the first DGX Spark unit to Elon Musk at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas. The DGX Spark, priced at $3,999 (around ₹3.5 lakh), is being described as the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, and it marks NVIDIA’s latest attempt to make high-performance AI computing accessible to developers, researchers, and creators.
The meeting between Huang and Musk carried an element of nostalgia. Back in 2016, Huang had personally delivered the first NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputer to Musk and his team at OpenAI, long before ChatGPT made global headlines. “In 2016, we built DGX-1 to give AI researchers their own supercomputer. I hand-delivered the first system to Elon at a small startup called OpenAI , and from it came