Huang and Zuckerberg swapped jackets at SIGGRAPH 2024

A fireside chat on Monday between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the SIGGRAPH 2024 conference in Colorado took a few unexpected turns.It started innocently enough, with Huang waxing positive about the capabilities of Nvidia GPUs and Zuckerberg speaking about his vision of an AI chatbot future. But by the end, Huang and Zuckerberg were swapping custom-made jackets — a throwback to the viral meme from earlier in the year.“It’s black and leather and shearling,” Zuckerberg said, describing the coat he brought for Huang. “It’s a vibe. I mean, get this guy a chain.”

Huang gave Zuckerberg a new leather jacket that he said his wife, Lori, bought him to commemorate this year’s SIGGRAPH. He’d been wearing it for the past two hours.

“This is worth more because it’s used,” Zuckerberg said.Other surprise highlights in the hour-long exchange included references to the cows Zuckerberg’s raising on his ranch in Hawaii, an F-bomb drop and Zuckerberg’s style makeover. (Zuckerberg described it as “early stage.”) Huang didn’t hold back when it came to roasting Zuckerberg — a privilege of Meta’s dependency on Nvidia for model-training hardware, perhaps.