Musk asks Nvidia to ship AI chips booked for Tesla to X and xAI, CNBC reports


FILE PHOTO Elon Musk Twitter account is seen in this illustration taken July 24 2023. REUTERSDado RuvicIllustrationFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk Twitter account is seen in this illustration taken, July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

(Reuters) -Tesla CEO Elon Musk has told Nvidia to prioritize shipments of AI processors to his companies X and xAI over the electric-vehicle maker, CNBC reported on Tuesday.

"Elon prioritizing X H100 GPU cluster deployment at X versus Tesla by redirecting 12K of shipped H100 GPUs originally slated for Tesla to X instead," an internal Nvidia memo from December showed, according to the CNBC report.


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