Musk Says Hiring Jensen Huang 'Would Be an Honor,' After the Nvidia CEO Resigns

After Nvidia announced that Jensen Huang had resigned as CEO, someone on X asked Elon Musk if he could hire Huang. Musk replied, "That would be an honor," Not a Tesla App reported.

Musk did not say what role Huang might take, or whether he was actually making an offer. The exchange is a comment, not a hiring announcement. Not a Tesla App said one obvious fit that came to mind was Terafab, the chip factory Tesla and SpaceX are building in Grimes County, Texas — a suggestion from the site, not a statement from Musk or Huang.

Nvidia's board announced Thursday that Huang had resigned after 33 years at the company he built, and that CFO Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO. Former Synopsys CEO and board member Harvey Jones was named Nvidia's first board chairman, and Huang is leaving the board as well, the site reported.

The resignation followed a quickly growing scandal. The New York Times reported in late October that Huang had a close relationship with a Chinese woman at a Singapore-based company that was buying Nvidia chips. That relationship with an alleged Chinese intelligence agent triggered investigations by the FBI, the U.S. Congress, and Nvidia itself. China has denied the allegations, and President Trump said Huang told him he had no idea the woman was a spy. Earlier this week, reports emerged that Huang also had an affair with a senior Nvidia executive who reported to him. Nvidia shares fell as much as 14 percent after the opening bell, erasing almost $600 billion in market value, before recovering to trade down about 7.3 percent. Nvidia has lost more than 25 percent of its valuation in the past month, Not a Tesla App reported.

A long history, and a new competitive edge

Musk and Huang go back years. When Nvidia unveiled its first AI supercomputer, the DGX-1, in 2016, Musk said OpenAI, the nonprofit lab he had just co-founded, could put it to work, and Huang personally delivered the first unit to OpenAI's San Francisco office in August 2016. The two have often appeared on conference panels and recently received the National Medal of Science from Trump. Huang also interviewed Musk at the 2015 GPU Technology Conference.

Earlier this year, Nvidia became something of a competitor to Tesla when it announced Alpamayo, an autonomous vehicle platform to rival Full Self-Driving. More recently, SpaceX partnered with Nvidia for processors that will power AI satellites it plans to launch into orbit, the site reported.

Tesla and SpaceX are building Terafab with more than 100 million square feet of manufacturing space, aiming to produce over 1 terawatt of compute a year for Optimus, Cybercab, SpaceX's orbital data centers, and more. They have partnered with Intel on the project and hired Intel veteran Gary Jiang as a director. Huang has also been one of Terafab's skeptics. "Building advanced chip manufacturing is extremely hard," he said at a TSMC event in November 2025.

Whether a comment on X becomes a job offer is a separate question. For now, the only on-the-record word from Musk is that hiring Huang "would be an honor."