The Nvidia engineers’ threat to quit for SpaceX is fake. The anger over Jensen Huang’s departure is real.

Someone took an old 2023 OpenAI employee protest letter, changed the names and turned it into a supposed threat from Nvidia engineers. The letter says they will quit unless Jensen Huang gets his job back, claiming Elon Musk has already made room for them at Terafab.

🚨 THE REAL DANGER ISN’T THAT JENSEN HUANG WAS PUSHED OUT.
THE REAL DANGER IS THIS:
Nvidia’s core engineers are already saying it out loud:
“If the board doesn’t bring Jensen back,
we’re going straight to SpaceX and Terafab.”
And they’re claiming Elon has already reserved… pic.twitter.com/wRIbE5cmMU
— Beau Montgomery (@IamSinovuyo) November 14, 2026

Nvidia VP Brian Catanzaro was named on the letter. He says he never signed it and calls it fake. There is no evidence Musk offered the engineers jobs.

That doesn’t mean Nvidia employees are happy. An internal post calling for Huang’s return reportedly drew more than 1,600 comments. Musk also signed a separate petition backing Huang.

The employee backlash is real. The dramatic SpaceX resignation letter isn’t.

I’ve decided to leave NVIDIA. There are a few things I want to say.
As a robotics engineer at NVIDIA, I have seen Jensen as much more than the company’s CEO.
I admire his willingness to invest in a future that was not yet obvious. He committed to CUDA long before the deep… pic.twitter.com/xcp3g5r3wy
— Darrell Dai (@darrell_dai) November 15, 2026