By Arsheeya Bajwa

MUMBAI, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Nvidia's ( NVDA ) leather-jacket-clad

CEO Jensen Huang got a rock star welcome at the company's AI

summit in India on Thursday, with passes sold out and tech

enthusiasts spending thousands of rupees to travel to the event.

The reception Huang received in India's commercial capital

Mumbai was reminiscent of the "Jensanity" seen in other parts of

the world, especially Taiwan, as his popularity climbs with

Nvidia's ( NVDA ) soaring earnings and multi-trillion dollar

market valuation.

The event, where the U.S. company unveiled plans to supply

Reliance Industries and other Indian firms with its AI

chips, had to be delayed for more than half an hour due to the

crowd that one Nvidia ( NVDA ) employee said was "easily a few thousand".

"This was Coldplay, but for tech bros. The passes were all

sold out," Yuvraj Mehta, a robotics engineer for an AI startup

that is part of the Nvidia ( NVDA ) incubation program said, referring to

the British rock band.

Two engineers, who declined to be named, said they had spent

more than 40,000 rupees ($476) in total to travel to Mumbai to

attend the summit from Surat in the Western state of Gujarat and

Gurgaon in the northern state of Haryana.

Big Tech CEOs enjoy strong popularity in India, where

engineering degrees from colleges including the prestigious

Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are considered a path to

prosperity.

But some attendees said that even among them Huang - who has

built Nvidia ( NVDA ) as the dominant provider of the processors

essential to generative AI - stands out.

"He's a hero". "He's a hero in the academic and student

communities, and the AI ecosystem community," said Akash Bansal,

founder of robotics startup Orangewood Labs.

($1 = 84.0440 Indian rupees)