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Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia. Elon Musk says hiring him would be ‘an honor’

“That would be an honor,” Musk wrote on X Wednesday evening, responding to a post that read: “Elon please hire Jensen.” The exchange followed a Wall Street Journal report that Nvidia’s board was preparing to oust its cofounder, according to Reuters.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 4 sources•1 min read•Updated November 13, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC
Key points
  • Nvidia’s sky-high valuation is based on the fact that it designs and sells the advanced AI chips, called graphics processing units (GPUs), that underpin the AI economy.
  • CEO’s affair and resignation has brought company’s murky corporate contracts and supply chains into sharp focus Can the AI economy survive without its “central bank”?
  • What does Jensen Huang’s fall mean for the world’s second-most valuable company, and what might a tremor in its fortunes mean for the world?

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Additional details
  • Without these, AI models such as ChatGPT and Claude could not be trained and would not run.
  • Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire criticized Huang’s conduct but described him as “irreplaceable for America’s AI leadership.” Musk endorsed Maguire’s post with a brief reply: “I agree.” Others who publicly backed Huang include Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, Binance founder Changpeng….
  • Before Nvidia publicly announced Jensen Huang’s departure, Elon Musk said he wanted to hire him.
  • There’s all sorts of reasons why you might not want to tell someone they’re being spied on, the number one being that they might blow up the operation.
  • In September 2024, Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison recounted a dinner with Musk and Huang at Nobu in Palo Alto, where he and Musk found themselves pleading for more of Nvidia’s coveted graphics processing units.

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WiredNovember 13, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC → FortuneNovember 13, 2026, 8:03 AM UTC → VoxNovember 12, 2026, 10:55 PM UTC → WiredNovember 12, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC → The Guardian BusinessNovember 12, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC →

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