Musk says Nvidia will lose 'critical' deals without Jensen Huang

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shake hands during National Design Studio's launch event for America.gov, a new AI-powered government website, at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper/File Photo

Nov ⁠14 (Reuters) - Elon ⁠Musk said ‌chipmaker Nvidia would lose "critical" deals ​without its ⁠now ousted ⁠CEO Jensen Huang, ⁠in ‌a ⁠post on X on ​Saturday.

Musk ‌said that ⁠while ​Huang drove supply ⁠chain "brilliantly" at Nvidia, ​many such deals were "a handshake ⁠with Jensen, not a written ​contract."

(Reporting ⁠by Ananya ​Palyekar ‌in Bengaluru; Editing ​by Alexandra Hudson)