“The loss of Jensen Huang is a real blow”: the fall of the Nvidia boss causes an earthquake on the AI planet

The fate of the boss of the most strategic technological company of the moment was sealed around an extramarital relationship, but not the one expected. Jensen Huang resigned Thursday, following an Nvidia board of directors meeting urgently during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. Events precipitated after the revelation by the New York Times of another affair that Jensen Huang had with one of his vice-presidents, Kimberly Powell, in charge of the group's health division, who therefore worked under his direct responsibility. This “scoop” precipitated the painful decision of the 11 members of the board of directors to immediately leave his position as general manager. The founder, and sole boss of Nvidia since its creation thirty years ago, had already been mired for several weeks in a much more serious scandal, linked to his affair with Alice Huang, a former manager of the Megaspeed cloud platform, suspected of being a Chinese spy and at the heart of illegal trafficking of the brand's AI chips to Beijing.

Last Sunday, Nvidia's board of directors still hoped to avoid getting to that point so quickly. While announcing the opening of an internal investigation, he renewed his confidence in Jensen Huang, despite his confessions about his relationship with Alice Huang. After the latest revelations, the situation was no longer tenable for the general manager, a few days before the presentation of the group's financial results scheduled for next Tuesday. Maintaining it exposed Nvidia to a wave of criticism from lawmakers, investors, customers – and even internally. He is also leaving the board of directors.