“It would be an honor for me.” Musk offers to hire the head of “NVIDIA” amid controversy over his affair

While Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the giant artificial intelligence chip manufacturer with a market value exceeding $4 trillion, faces increasing pressure, he can count on the support of an old friend, the American billionaire Elon Musk, head of SpaceX and Tesla. Late Wednesday evening, financial blogger Zero Hedge, formerly of Twitter, posted a comment saying: “Elon, please hire Jensen.”

“It would be an honor,” Musk responded, but did not specify which of his many companies he might hire Huang to, if that possibility materialized. It would not be unlikely for Huang to join one of Musk's companies, given the apparently long and friendly working relationship between the two men.

In 2016, Huang personally delivered to Musk the first artificial intelligence supercomputer produced by Nvidia, running on the company’s chips, when Musk was a founding partner of the research laboratory “OpenAI”, which was not widely known at the time. Today, SpaceX, which specializes in aerospace and artificial intelligence, is a major buyer of Nvidia chips.

Last month, the Financial Times reported that the company was seeking to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia. Huang had admitted to having an extramarital affair, at a time when his company announced that it would conduct an investigation into allegations that he was targeted as part of “foreign intelligence efforts” that China was behind.

The two separate announcements came amid growing concerns about Huang's close relationship with Alice Huang, CEO of the Singapore-based technology company Megaspeed. Several US media outlets reported that US officials suspect Alice Huang, who is not related to Jensen Huang, of leaking intelligence information to China and helping to smuggle advanced artificial intelligence chips into the country.