Taiwanese boy dressed up as Jensen Huang wins Halloween

• A five-year-old Taiwanese boy dressed up as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang for Halloween.
• The boy wore Juan’s signature black leather jacket and carried a GPU.
• “He just knows he’s dressed like a very wonderful person,” the boy’s mother told BI.

CEO costumes are all the rage this Halloween.

At least that’s what happened to a 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, went viral after user X posted it online on Wednesday.

“Jensen Huang’s Halloween costumes are here,” the user wrote.

The boy’s mother, Kuo Yuyun, told Business Insider that she was inspired to create the costume after seeing the CEO on TV.

“He always wears classic black leather jackets and visits the most basic night markets in Taiwan. This contrasting image made a deep impression, so this time I asked my son to dress like him,” she said in Taiwanese Chinese.

According to Kuo, it took a week to make the GPU suit. She dressed her son up in frames Tianmu Halloween Festival in Taipei.

“We also participated in this event last year,” she said. “I dressed it up as a typhoon. Everyone liked him too.”

Huang, who was born in Taiwan, founded Nvidia in 1993. The artificial intelligence boom has transformed 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.

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Today, Nvidia is at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution. The company reported revenue of $30.04 billion for the second quarter of the year, doubling revenue in the same period last year and beating analysts’ expectations. The company’s shares are up 181% since the beginning of the year.

Both Huang and Nvidia have inspired fans around the world. Juan’s signature leather jacket has spawned legions of imitators; Nvidia’s second quarter earnings are unofficial watch the party at a bar in New York.

During a trip to Taiwan last May, Huang was met rock star reception and are inundated with requests for selfies. And at a tech event in Taiwan in June, Huang presented—and executed— fan requests sign MacBooks, chips and even one women’s top.

Some of that cult status appears to have rubbed off on Kuo’s 5-year-old son.

“He just knows he’s dressed like a very distinguished person,” Kuo said. “He’s like a ‘superhero’ to him.”

Nvidia’s official Instagram page also reposted the boy’s photo, receiving more than 17,000 likes in a day.

“We spotted a mini-Jensen in Taiwan with well-designed GPUs in hand!” read the signature.

Nvidia did not respond to BI’s request for comment for this story.