Jensen replied in 7 minutes: exolabs says NVIDIA war room boosted local AI playbooks 9.6x
WesEklund · x · 2026-11-13
exolabs founder Alex Ocheema reveals that in June the team pitched Jensen Huang on making local AI 10x better on NVIDIA hardware — Huang replied within 7 minutes and approved a war room at NVIDIA HQ. For a month, HQ served as exolabs' satellite office, with creators of CUDA and Dynamo pitching in. Result: NVIDIA's local AI playbooks improved 9.6x, near the 10x goal, with a whitepaper coming. Ocheema calls Huang "a 1 of 1 human" who deeply cares about open-source and local AI. Photos show the meeting, the war room, and an exolabs "Run frontier AI locally" banner.
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