There hasn t been a popularly identifiable face of AI yet. ChatGPT and Bard are anonymous brains. That s part of what makes AI so eerie - its disembodied nature. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is ubiquitous but looks kind of generic. Huang and his leather jacket are poised to step neatly into that gap.
The quiet luxury or stealth wealth trend is just another excuse to fetishize wealth, or at least dressing wealthy, which doesn't excuse it being so boring.