Andrej Karpathy says he’s using his Jensen Huang hand-signed Nvidia chip system to power his Clawbot ‘Dobby’

When Nvidia told him he was receiving “a secret gift,” OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy said he knew “it had to be good.”

“She’s a real beauty!” Karpathy wrote on X. “I was told I’d be getting a secret gift, with a hint that it requires 20 amps. (So I knew it had to be good).”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hand-delivered the first-ever Nvidia DGX Station, a GB300 superchip architecture designed to seize on the OpenClaw moment of desktop AI development. Nvidia calls the station, “The ultimate deskside AI supercomputer.”

Karpathy said he’ll use his station to power his OpenClaw bot, “Dobby the House Elf claw.” After leaving OpenAI in February 2024, Karpathy founded Eureka Labs, an education AI startup.

During his GTC keynote, Huang gushed about the era of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that swept across Silicon Valley and is now skyrocketing in popularity in China. In an interview with CNBC, Huang went so far as to say that OpenClaw is “definitely the next ChatGPT.”

“OpenClaw has made it possible for us to create personal agents,” Huang said during his GTC speech. “The implication is incredible.”

Karpathy’s station is particularly special, both because it is Nvidia’s first one and because it came with a hand-signed note from Huang.

“The agentic era of AI has arrived,” Huang’s note reads. “Incredible milestone from the early days of GTC we enjoyed together. You were with me every step of the way.”

Karpathy pointed out that, as Huang alluded to his hand-signed note, his time at Nvidia conferences goes back to 2015. At the time, Huang shouted out Karpathy’s Ph.D thesis and even brought him up onstage.

Nvidia GTC’s audience back then, Karpathy wrote, “were mostly gamers and scientific computing professionals.”

“This was back when most people were still unaware and somewhat skeptical but of course – Jensen was 1000% correct, highly prescient and locked in very early,” Karpathy wrote.