At a major Silicon Valley AI conference, VCs and CEOs grapple with a future without Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang's exit dominated conversations at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit. Founders and investors worried about losing a powerful backer of AI startups. Some said Nvidia's chip lead would endure, while rivals saw an opening. Hours after he was ousted as the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang was still winning at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in San Francisco on Thursday. At least in a video game. In "Cerebral Combat," an arcade game set up for attendees, the Nvidia cofounder could take down Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a giant GPU. Outside the game, things weren't going nearly as well for Huang. On Thursday morning, he had resigned as CEO of Nvidia, the company he founded 33 years ago and built into the world's most valuable chipmaker, following reports of extramarital affairs, including one with a woman suspected by US intelligence officials of spying for China. Nvidia named its longtime CFO, Colette Kress, interim CEO.

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