Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang just gave us a Meta-Nvidia crossover we never saw coming
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- Mark Zuckerberg seems to be a huge fan of chip giant Nvidia and its CEO, Jensen Huang.
- The Meta chief posted a photo of himself trading jackets with Huang on Instagram.
- Zuckerberg revealed in January that Meta would own more than 340,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024.
Meta and Nvidia CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang just gave us a Big Tech fashion crossover for the books.
On Tuesday, Zuckerberg uploaded a photo he'd taken with Huang to Instagram.
"Jersey swap," Zuckerberg wrote in the post's caption. He was wearing Huang's iconic black leather jacket, while Huang sported the brown coat Zuckerberg wore during his recent trip to Asia.
Zuckerberg's fashion post marks another step in the tech founder's style evolution. The Meta chief was once known for sticking to a bland uniform of gray t-shirts and hoodies, but he's now traded that for more adventurous fits.
Besides his shearling brown jacket, Zuckerberg went all-in on "loud luxury" when he attended the Ambani family's pre-wedding celebrations earlier this month. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were seen dressed in all-black outfits designed by Alexander McQueen.
It's not just clothes. Zuckerberg also seems to have acquired a taste for luxury timepieces, too. The tech billionaire was seen getting major watch envy over Anant Ambani's Richard Mille watch during the latter's pre-wedding celebrations.
"You know, I never really wanted to get a watch. But after seeing that, I was like, watches are cool," Zuckerberg said.
It is unclear when the photo of Huang and Zuckerberg was taken or when they met. Representatives for Meta did not immediately respond to queries from BI, while a representative for Nvidia declined to comment on the photo.
A meeting between Zuckerberg and Huang wouldn't be surprising considering Zuckerberg's ambitions to expand aggressively into the AI space.
In an earnings call last year, Zuckerberg told investors that AI will be Meta's "biggest investment area in 2024 for engineering and compute resources."
Some of those investments have gone into buying chips from Nvidia.
Zuckerberg told The Verge in an interview published in January that Meta is projected to own more than 340,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of this year. The huge pile of chips that Meta is acquiring is becoming a prime source of envy to the company's rivals, given the need for GPUs to train and deploy AI models.
"We have built up the capacity to do this at a scale that may be larger than any other individual company," Zuckerberg told The Verge. "I think a lot of people may not appreciate that."