Jensen Huang is very optmistic about Musk’s most ambitious creations, Tesla's
Optimus humanoid robot, because, according to him, it could be the first to reach mass adoption and become a multi-trillion-dollar industry, as per a report.During an interview with Bloomberg, when Huang was asked about Tesla's growing relationship with Nvidia and its potential in robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems, he praised Musk and called him "an extraordinary engineer," reported Benzinga.
He even shared that, "I love working with him," and added, "We’ve built some amazing computers together. We’re going to build many more computers together," as quoted in the report.
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Inside the explosive fallout between Elon Musk and Donald Trump — how their bromance shatteredHuang highlighted that Musk's ventures, like Grok, self-driving car initiatives and the Optimus robot, are world-class, revolutionary and full of massive potential, according to Benzinga.
He then spoke about Optimus and mentioned, "This is the first robot that really has a chance to achieve the high volume and technology scale necessary to advance technology," adding, "I think this is likely to be the next
multi-trillion dollar industry," as quoted in the report. Earlier this year, Musk had revealed that his EV giant has planned to produce several thousand units of its Optimus humanoid robot in 2025 for use internally, and after gaining feedback from these deployments, it will develop the next version, which is expected to launch in 2026, as per Benzinga.
Nvidia provides the computing power behind Tesla’s AI and autonomous driving systems and likely will for robots too.
He calls Musk “an extraordinary engineer” and says they’ve built powerful computing systems together, with more projects on the way.