A letter asking Nvidia’s board to reinstate Jensen Huang as CEO has been passed around online with senior Nvidia names at the bottom, and one of those names says he never signed it. On 13 November, one of them, Bryan Catanzaro, a vice president at Nvidia, wrote on X that the letter is “obviously fake”.
Catanzaro wrote that the letter claims his involvement, and that he would not have signed it even if it were real. He also said he is “grief-stricken” that Huang is no longer at Nvidia, and that he fully supports the board and Colette Kress, who took over as interim CEO after Huang left. He described her as an extraordinary leader he has worked with for years.
In his post, Catanzaro separates two things: sadness over Huang’s exit and confidence in the people now running the company. That is the opposite of what the circulating letter would have him say.
Earlier on 13 November, Daniel Zhang, a software developer, compared the text with the 2023 letter sent to OpenAI’s board after Sam Altman was fired and wrote that it was the same letter with names swapped. His post was a response to a separate viral claim that hundreds of Nvidia employees had signed an internal petition.
The forged letter appeared days after Huang’s resignation as CEO, when the company’s staff and the industry were still arguing about it. A screenshot with famous names on it is not evidence of what Nvidia’s leaders think, and a named signatory’s own post is the only statement from one in this story so far.
