Ten years back, Jensen Huang rolled out something nobody seemed to want—the next-gen DJX1 GPU. Zero purchase orders lined up. Except one guy saw it differently.

That guy? Musk.

Huang recalls the moment in a recent sit-down: when he announced the chip, the market went silent. No takers. Then Musk stepped up, saying he had a company that could actually put that hardware to work.

While the rest of the industry hesitated, one visionary placed his bet. That early conviction on cutting-edge compute infrastructure turned out to be a glimpse into where AI and high-performance processing were headed. Sometimes the first believer makes all the difference.