Viral letter demanding Jensen Huang's return to Nvidia is a fake copied from OpenAI's 2023 letter

Nov 14, 2026
The document swapped OpenAI for Nvidia and Microsoft for Elon Musk; Nvidia's Bryan Catanzaro, listed as a signatory, called it clearly fake.

A letter that spread on X claiming that senior Nvidia staff demanded the board's resignation and Jensen Huang's return is fake, ChosunBiz reports. Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia's vice president of applied deep learning research, whose name appeared among the signatories, wrote on X: "This letter is clearly fake, and even if it were real, I would not have signed it." He said he was sorry to see Huang leave but trusts the board's decision and supports interim chief executive Colette Kress.

The document claimed hundreds of employees had signed it and listed figures including vice president Ian Buck and chief scientist Bill Dally. It called for the whole board to resign and threatened that signatories would leave to join SpaceX. Its wording closely follows the letter more than 700 OpenAI employees sent their board in November 2023 after Sam Altman was ousted, with "OpenAI" replaced by "Nvidia", "Sam Altman" by "Jensen Huang" and "Microsoft" by "Elon Musk", Herald Business reports. X added a community note saying there were no reports of such a signed letter.

Some Nvidia employees did push for Huang's return: a post on the company's internal suggestion board drew more than 1,600 comments, most of them in favour, according to Wired. Huang stepped down as chief executive on November 12.

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