CEOs of major high-tech companies often get together for promotional work or PR events. Such meetings usually involve talking about a new project they are working on or some kind of investment worth billions of dollars. So when Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang recently had a "jersey swap" on Instagram, you wouldn't expect anything more. In response to a comment on the photo, Zuckerberg described Huang as resembling Taylor Swift. The techie version, of course.

Zuckerberg's slightly odd but flattering description was reported by Fortune, which explained that the Meta CEO was replying to the comment, "I don't know who you are, but I'm glad you're having fun."

The person in question is, of course, Nvidia co-founder, president, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, and even if you know about the company from owning GeForce graphics cards or reading AI news on the Web, you fully understand that not everyone knows his face. Even my tech-savvy partner knows his face. Even my tech-savvy partner asked me who he was.

So if you were to explain who he is, why he is famous, and why he is important, what short one-liner would you use? One can imagine that some people would just cringe at such a comment, but Zuckerberg probably had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he wrote those words.

To be fair to the meta-CEOs, this is not a bad comparison at all. Both are globally recognized (although far more people would recognize Taylor Swift) and both are very successful in their respective fields. They started from scratch and worked hard over the years to build their wealth.

That said, I tried to picture Huang as a world-class music star with a Spanish outfit and an energetic dance troupe singing "Shake it off" to a crowd of fans waving their beloved graphics cards. But, yes, it really doesn't work. [Anyway, why are Zuckerberg and Juan such good friends now? Well, it has to do with Meta's serious research and investment in AI, and the massive purchase of NVIDIA GPUs to power it all.

Last year, Meta bought 150,000 H100 GPUs and is on track to double that by the end of the year. We are talking billions of dollars worth of chips here.

Nvidia's H100 has just been surpassed by the recently launched Blackwell B200, but several companies have already placed huge pre-orders for this super-sized graphics chip, so it will be some time before Meta can get its hands on a few hundred thousand It will take some time. I wonder if Zuckerberg was hoping for a small discount on the jacket swap photo shoot and cute description. We can all dream, can't we?