SAN FRANCISCO — One day later Jensen Huang resigned from Nvidia, Silicon Valley is already waiting for its big comeback.
As a close ally of Donald Trumptaking calls regularly — even publicly — from the president, Huang has become one of the most important and influential voices in Washington for the largely California-based technology industry, leave a void with his departure from one of the world’s most profitable companies, which has become the backbone of the AI boom.
But as national security hawks and tech skeptics in Washington prepare to drag him before Congress to further examine his affair with an alleged Chinese intelligence agent, Silicon Valley executives are mourning his quick departure and proposing ways he could return.
The founder of defense technology giant Anduril, Palmer Luckeyand CEO of Perplexity AI Aravind Srinivas rushed to Huang’s defense, while SpaceXSI CEO Elon Musk even floated the idea of hiring him.
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