
黄仁勋离开英伟达之际伴随着公司丑闻,但他许多的前员工以及硅谷各地的同事纷纷涌现,表达对这位他们心目中的传奇人物的支持。
Jensen Huang’s exit from Nvidia was marked by corporate scandal, but many of his own former employees and colleagues across Silicon Valley are coming out in droves to express support for the man they believe to be a legend.
在有报道称黄仁勋有多段婚外情(其中包括与至少一名下属)之后,他于周四辞职。此前,有报道称他与另一名女子有染,该女子被美国官员描述为潜在的中国情报资产,当时他已经面临审查。
Huang resigned on Thursday after reports of multiple extramarital affairs, including with at least one subordinate. He had already been under scrutiny after reports of an affair with another woman, who was described by US officials as a potential Chinese intelligence asset.
黄仁勋对英伟达的品牌至关重要,以至于他身穿标志性黑色皮夹克的形象经常被做成营销材料,包括在公司年度大会(即GTC大会)上的人工智能驱动全息图。英伟达以低离职率和平扁化公司结构而闻名,黄仁勋管理着50多名直接下属,并随时回复消息,这培养了员工对公司的深厚忠诚度。
Huang was so integral to Nvidia’s brand that his image — with signature black leather jacket — was often turned into marketing material, including an AI-powered hologram at the company’s annual conference, known as GTC. Known for its low turnover and flat corporate structure, with Huang managing over 50 direct reports and responding to messages at all hours, Nvidia fostered deep employee loyalty.
在他离职后,现任和前任员工在社交媒体上发文致敬。曾在英伟达从实习生做起的总监兼杰出科学家爱德华·刘(Edward Liu)在X平台上发帖称这是“令人心碎的一天”,并赞扬黄仁勋是一位鼓舞人心的领导者,教会他们“从第一原理进行推理”。工程师彭飞(Fei Peng)则更进一步,写道黄仁勋的离职“扼杀了英伟达的灵魂”。
Following his departure, current and former staff responded with tributes on social media. Edward Liu, a director and distinguished scientist who started as an intern at the company, called it “a heartbreaking day,” in a post on X, praising Huang as an inspiring leader who taught them to “reason from first principles.”Engineer Fei Peng went even further, writing that Huang’s departure “has killed NVIDIA’s soul.”
其他人,如高级研究科学家加文·乌勒里(Gavin Woolery),则公开暗示其被罢免背后有不可告人的动机和疑点。乌勒里在X平台上发帖称,他觉得黄仁勋被罢免得太快了,在所有信息浮出水面之前就发生了。
Others, like senior research scientist Gavin Woolery, openly suggested ulterior motives and suspicions about his ousting. Woolery posted on X that he felt Huang’s ousting came too quickly before all the information emerged.
乌勒里表示:“每个人都应该得到公正的审判。可能他犯了错误,我不确定这些错误是否出于恶意,但在任何情况下,我们在评判之前都应该了解全部真相。”
“Everyone deserves a fair trial. It’s possible he has made mistakes, I’m not sure they were ill-intentioned ones, but in either case we should know the whole truth before we judge,” Woolery said.
其他员工则表达了对英伟达临时领导人、首席财务官科莱特·克雷斯(Colette Kress)的支持。
Other employees expressed support for Nvidia’s interim leader, CFO Colette Kress.
英伟达应用深度学习研究副总裁布莱恩·卡坦扎罗(Bryan Catanzaro)发帖称:“詹森不再效力于英伟达,我感到悲痛欲绝。与此同时,我全力支持英伟达董事会,并对他们的决定充满信心。我和科莱特共事多年,知道她是一位非凡的领导者。她拥有我全力的支持。”英伟达大门之外,黄仁勋的影响力波及整个更广泛的技术生态系统。
“I am grief-stricken that Jensen is no longer with NVIDIA,” posted Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia’s vice president of applied deep learning research. “At the same time, I fully support NVIDIA’s board and have confidence in their decisions. I’ve worked with Colette for years and know her as an extraordinary leader. She has my full support.”Beyond Nvidia’s walls, Huang’s influence was felt across the broader tech ecosystem.
英伟达常被称为蓬勃发展的人工智能行业的“中央银行”,它不仅供应驱动该技术的硬件,还通过投资和 partnerships(伙伴关系)为该行业的很大一部分提供资金,而黄仁勋则是其最大的啦啦队长。这招致了批评和对“循环融资”的担忧,即英伟达投资于那些在获得英伟达资金后又回过头来购买英伟达产品的公司,从而推动自身的增长。
Often called the “central bank” of the booming AI industry, Nvidia not only supplied the hardware powering the technology but also financed much of the sector through investments and partnerships, with Huang serving as its biggest cheerleader. That has led to criticism and fears of “circular financing,” in which Nvidia invests in companies that fuel its own growth when those businesses turn around and use Nvidia capital to purchase Nvidia products.
Exolabs创始人亚历克斯·基马(Alex Cheema)曾于6月给黄仁勋写了一封冷邮件,探讨了如何在英伟达硬件上让本地人工智能运行得更快的一个想法。基马写道,黄仁勋在七分钟内就回复了,并“批准了一个作战室,让我们在英伟达总部开展这项工作”。
Exolabs founder Alex Cheema wrote about cold emailing Huang in June about an idea to make local AI much faster on Nvidia hardware. Huang responded in seven minutes and “approved a war room for us to work on this at NVIDIA HQ,” Cheema wrote.
基马指出黄仁勋长期以来对开源技术(构建在任何人都可以自由检查、修改和分发的公开访问源代码之上的软件或硬件)的支持和推广。大多数主要的人工智能模型(如ChatGPT和Claude)都运行在闭源系统上。
Cheema pointed to Huang’s long-time support and promotion of open-source technology — software or hardware built on publicly accessible source code that anyone can freely inspect, modify and distribute. Most of the major AI models, like ChatGPT and Claude, run on closed-source systems.
基马说:“我认为詹森是无可替代的,他是独一无二的人类,但我希望英伟达能够继续大力支持开源人工智能和本地人工智能,并继续对拥有疯狂想法的小型初创公司进行押注。”
“I don’t believe Jensen is replaceable, he’s a 1 of 1 human, but I hope NVIDIA will continue to aggressively support Open Source AI and Local AI, and continue to take bets on small startups with crazy ideas,” Cheema said.
黄仁勋也在同仁中找到了支持——包括他的长期朋友和商业伙伴埃隆·马斯克在内的一些硅谷和风险投资界最大牌的人物。甚至在黄仁勋被罢免之前,在另一位X平台用户恳求马斯克雇用黄仁勋后,马斯克就发帖称雇用黄仁勋将是“一种荣誉”。
Huang also found support among his peers — some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley and venture capital, including his longtime friend and business partner, Elon Musk. Even before Huang was ousted, Musk posted that it would be “an honor” to hire Huang after another user on X implored him to do so.
黄仁勋辞职后,马斯克随后在周五发帖称:“一项恢复詹森职务的请愿正在进行中,我也在签署。”
“A petition is underway to reinstate Jensen and I’mg it too,” Musk later posted on Friday after Huang’s resignation.
安德森-霍罗威茨基金(Andreessen Horowitz)普通合伙人马丁·卡萨多(Martin Casado)在X平台上发帖称:“黑暗、黑暗的一天。对美国和西方世界来说是个可怕的决定。”该公司的账号还发布了一部关于迈克尔·乔丹的电影片段,并配文:“你将被永远铭记,因为有些东西是永恒的。”
“Dark, dark day. Horrible decision for the U.S. and the western world,” Andreessen Horowitz general partner Martin Casado posted on X. The firm’s account also posted a clip from a movie about Michael Jordan, along with the quote: “ You’re gonna be remembered forever because some things are eternal.”
甚至连那些批评过他行为的人——比如红杉资本的肖恩·马奎尔(Shaun MaGuire),他称黄仁勋的行为是“愚蠢的错误”和“对美国不利”——也常常伴随着赞赏。马奎尔写道:“他在不忠方面犯了巨大错误,这对他的家庭和英伟达来说是个悲剧。但与此同时,他将留下一个巨大的真空,失去了一位技术型、进取型的创始人兼首席执行官。”
Even those who have criticized his actions, like Sequoia Capital’s Shaun MaGuire, who called Huang’s actions a “dumb mistake” and “bad for America,” often come with a dose of praise. “He made huge mistakes with his infidelity, which is tragic for his family and NVDA. But simultaneously he will leave a huge void, with the loss of a: technical, aggressive, founder-CEO,” MaGuire wrote on