The American entrepreneur Elon Musk joined the collection of signatures for the return of Jensen Huang as the head of Nvidia. Earlier, Tesla's senior chief engineer announced the start of such a campaign.
"The collection of signatures for the return of Jensen has been launched - I am also signing," Musk wrote on the X social network in response to Tsai's publication.
Previously, a Tesla engineer called on Nvidia employees to support Huang's return, including by resigning from the company and taking a break.
"If NVIDIA employees want Jensen back, they should start with the principle 'NVIDIA is nothing without its people' - leave and take a break." Good graphics processing unit (GPU) engineers are very hard to find and even harder to replace than machine learning engineers," Tsai wrote.
He emphasized that it is the employees, not the board of directors, who determine the future of the company.
At the same time, as the Washington Post points out, it is not clear which petition Musk signed. His name, however, appeared on the website standwithjensen.com along with the names of other technology company executives. The petition's authors say they are concerned about Huang's suspension without due process.
"We are current and former employees, partners, shareholders and supporters of NVIDIA. "We are writing with gratitude to Jensen Huang and with a clear demand to the board: reinstate Jensen while an independent investigation determines the facts, unless you can provide convincing evidence that his removal is in NVIDIA's best interests," the petition website said.
Along with Musk, the petition's signatories included the CEO of the startup Back Amjad Massad, the managing partner of the investment company Atreides Management Gavin Baker, the head of the video game developer Epic Games Tim Sweeney and the president of the venture fund and Combinator Harry Tan. The campaign is also supported by current Nvidia employees.
During the preparation of the publication, over 63 thousand people signed the petition, including 34.8 thousand shareholders.