Elon Musk paid tribute to Jensen Huang on November 13, 2026 by reposting a two-minute clip from "Air," the 2023 film about Michael Jordan and the birth of the Air Jordan brand. His entire comment consisted of one word: "Jensen."

The clip came from Andreessen Horowitz, the venture-capital firm, which shared it Thursday evening and highlighted the line, "You're going to be remembered forever because some things are eternal." Musk reshared the post on X the same day Huang resigned from Nvidia.

What does the clip actually say?

The scene features Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro, played by Matt Damon, delivering a monologue to the young Jordan to persuade him to sign a shoe deal. The framing matters: a legendary figure at the peak of his powers, facing the machinery that built him.

"Once they've built you as high as they possibly can, they're going to tear you back down," Damon's Vaccaro says. "Can you summon the will to fight on, through all the pain, and rise again?"

For practitioners, the message reads as a bet on Huang's eventual return — a figure defined by endurance rather than by a clean exit.

Did Musk try to hire Huang?

Musk's tribute followed an earlier signal. On Wednesday evening, when reports first surfaced that Nvidia's board was weighing Huang's removal, a user on X pleaded with Musk to hire the Nvidia founder.

Musk replied: "That would be an honor."

That single sentence moved markets' imagination even as Nvidia's stock slid 4% on the day of the resignation, capping a week of losses.

Why did Huang leave?

The resignation ended several days of speculation that began with a personal admission and ended with a board-level security review.

The sequence, as reported:

• Last Sunday, Huang apologized to staff and acknowledged he had been "unfaithful" to his wife. The board opened an investigation into whether Huang was "the target of a foreign intelligence effort."
• In late October, The New York Times reported that American intelligence agencies had found a close relationship between Huang and Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen and former executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center company.
• On Wednesday, the Times reported a second extramarital affair, with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice president of healthcare.
• After the resignation, Reuters reported a third relationship — an affair with a second Nvidia employee.

What is at stake for the AI chip market?

Huang founded Nvidia in 1993 and built it into the dominant supplier of the chips powering the AI boom. Demand for those processors surged through the decade, making Huang one of the most influential figures in the industry.

His exit removes the founder who personified that position. The 4% share-price drop on resignation day gives one measure of the market's reaction; the Musk tribute gives another — rivals and investors alike treating Huang as an asset still in play, not a legacy.

Whether any firm, Musk's included, can act on that depends on how the board's investigation into the foreign-intelligence question resolves.