This 5-year-old kid who dressed up as Jensen Huang for a festival in Taipei has already won Halloween
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- A 5-year-old Taiwanese boy dressed up as Nvidia's Jensen Huang for Halloween.
- The boy sported Huang's signature black leather jacket and carried a GPU.
- "He just knows that he is dressed as a very remarkable person," the boy's mom told BI.
This Halloween, CEO costumes are in.
At least, that's the case for the 5-year-old boy from Taipei who dressed up as Nvidia's Jensen Huang for the holiday.
The boy's costume, which features a GPU and Huang's signature black leather jacket look, went viral after an X user posted it online on Wednesday.
"The Jensen Huang Halloween costumes are here," the user wrote.
The boy's mom, Kuo Yuyun, told Business Insider she was inspired to create the costume after seeing the CEO on TV.
"He always wears classic black leather jackets and visits the most down-to-earth night markets in Taiwan. This contrasting image left a deep impression, so I asked my son to dress up as him this time," she said in Taiwanese Mandarin.
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The GPU costume took a week to make, said Kuo. She dressed her son up as part of Tianmu's Halloween Festival in Taipei.
"We also participated in the event last year," she said. "I dressed him up as a typhoon. It was also loved by everyone."
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Huang, who was born in Taiwan, founded Nvidia in 1993. The AI boom has turned the chipmaker into a $3.42 trillion giant and made Huang the 11th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $122 billion.
Today, Nvidia is at the head of the AI revolution. The company reported $30.04 billion in revenue for the second quarter of the year, doubling revenue from the same time last year and beating analyst expectations. The company's stock is up 181% year to date.
Huang and Nvidia alike have inspired cult-like followings across the world. Huang's signature leather jacket has spawned legions of copycats; Nvidia's second-quarter earnings created an unofficial watch party at a bar in New York City.
On a trip to Taiwan last May, Huang was greeted with a rockstar reception and mobbed with selfie requests. And at a tech event in Taiwan in June, Huang fielded — and fulfilled — fan requests to sign Macbooks, chips, and even one woman's top.
Some of that cult status appears to have trickled down to Kuo's 5-year-old son.
"He just knows that he is dressed as a very remarkable person," Kuo said. "To him, he is like a 'superhero.'"
Nvidia's official Instagram page also reposted the photo of the boy, garnering more than 17,000 likes in a day.
"We spotted mini-Jensen in Taiwan, well-crafted GPUs in hand!" the caption read.
Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment from BI for this story.