(VIDEO) Jensen Huang on Joe Rogan: How I Helped Elon Musk Build Tesla's Early Model S and FSD Computers |
LOS ANGELES — NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shared vivid details of his early collaboration with Elon Musk during a December 2025 appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience," recounting how he helped build the first onboard computers for Tesla's Model S and Model 3 and the initial hardware powering the company's Full Self-Driving system. A clip from episode #2422 resurfaced this week and quickly went viral on X, amassing more than 1.6 million views as fans revisited the origins of the tech giants' long-standing partnership.
Huang, speaking with Rogan, described the moment as one of personal luck and mutual vision. "I was lucky because I had known Elon Musk, and I helped him build the first computer for Model 3, the Model S, and when he wanted to start working on autonomous vehicle," he said in the podcast. "I helped him build the computer that went into the Model S AV system, his full self-driving system. We were basically the FSD computer version one."
Jensen Huang: "I was lucky because I had known Elon Musk, and I helped him build the first computer for Model 3, the Model S, and when he wanted to start working on autonomous vehicle."pic.twitter.com/tQSmp9Rmee— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) May 10, 2026
Jensen Huang: "I was lucky because I had known Elon Musk, and I helped him build the first computer for Model 3, the Model S, and when he wanted to start working on autonomous vehicle."pic.twitter.com/tQSmp9Rmee
The conversation, which originally aired Dec. 3, 2025, highlighted a pivotal 2015-2016 period when NVIDIA's deep-learning technology was still largely unproven outside research labs. Huang recalled announcing the company's DGX-1 AI supercomputer at its annual GTC conference to a largely silent audience. "Nobody in the world wanted it," he told Rogan. Musk, attending the event for a fireside chat on self-driving cars, became the first........