At the SIGGRAPH 2024 conference in Colorado, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a fireside chat on Monday that lasted a few minutes. An unexpected development.
That’s because Huang made positive comments about the performance of Nvidia GPUs, and Zuckerberg His vision for the future of AI chatbotsBut by the end, Huang and Zuckerberg had exchanged custom jackets. Viral memes Since the beginning of this year.
“It’s black and leather and shearling,” Zuckerberg said of the coat he brought for Huang. “It’s got vibe. Buy this guy a chain.”
Huang gifted Zuckerberg a new leather jacket that his wife, Lori, bought him for this year’s SIGGRAPH, which he had been wearing for the past two hours.
“It becomes more valuable because it’s being used,” Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg’s cow reference was also a surprising highlight of the hour-long exchange. Raise The F-word drop at the Hawaii ranch and Zuckerberg’s Style Makeover(Zuckerberg described it as “early stages.”) Huang has not been shy about criticizing Zuckerberg, a meta prerogative. Dependency on Nvidia for model training hardwareperhaps.
“He needs an AI that doesn’t judge,” Huang said.
At one point, Huang recounted an anecdote about how Zuckerberg cuts tomatoes: While they were making cheesesteak sandwiches together at Huang’s house, Zuckerberg was tasked with cutting the tomatoes, Huang said.
“So Mark, I handed him the knife,” Huang said, “and he cut up the tomatoes. Every single one of them was perfectly sliced, to within a millimeter. But what was really interesting was, I thought the tomatoes were all sliced up and stacked like a deck of cards. But I turned around and he said he needed another plate. And the reason was, none of the tomatoes that he cut were touching each other. Once he separates one tomato from the other, they should never touch again.”
Huang playfully chastised Zuckerberg when he asked for a second cheesesteak at a dinner party, to which Zuckerberg replied, “Jensen, make me another cheesesteak.”
But the interview ended on a more complimentary note, with Huang complimenting Zuckerberg on his physique.
“I think Mark is pretty muscular,” he said. “Look, he’s pretty muscular.”
Zuckerberg put his arm around Jensen’s shoulders and returned the compliment. “You too.”
