Jensen Huang reportedly resigns as NVIDIA CEO; Musk says hiring him 'would be an honor'
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-11-12
A NVIDIA press-release screenshot claims Jensen Huang resigned as President, CEO and board member effective immediately, with CFO Colette Kress named interim CEO. Asked moments later whether he'd hire Huang, Elon Musk replied "That would be an honor."
The thread recaps Huang's 33-year arc: founding NVIDIA at a Denny's booth in 1993; betting the company on CUDA in 2006 while Wall Street called it a waste; AlexNet training on two gaming cards in 2012 opening the deep learning era; the $7B Mellanox deal betting on thousands of chips acting as one machine — the foundation under every major AI model.
The author speculates Huang — now free of board and earnings calls — could end up building compute inside Musk's world, where Tesla, xAI, Optimus, and Starlink all need more compute than the world can supply. Note: authenticity of the screenshot is unverified.
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