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

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.