THE RECORD, WITH RECEIPTS
Checked November 13, 2026. These are dated findings, not a live news feed. The SEC event date (November 11) and public announcement date (November 12) describe different steps. The petition’s request for a return is a supporter opinion, not a statement by NVIDIA.
NVIDIA / SEC EDGAR · Filed November 12, 2026; event November 11, 2026
The filing states that the board accepted Huang’s resignation as president, CEO and director on November 11, effective immediately, and appointed Colette Kress interim CEO.
Read source ↗NVIDIA Newsroom · November 12, 2026
NVIDIA publicly announced the resignation and interim appointment, and said its search for a permanent CEO would consider internal and external candidates. The release does not establish reasons for departure.
Read source ↗NVIDIA Investor Relations · November 12, 2026
The company’s investor-relations release corroborates the public announcement and interim appointment.
Read source ↗Associated Press · November 12, 2026
Independent current reporting corroborates the public resignation announcement and Kress’s interim appointment. The campaign does not repeat allegations from the report.
Read source ↗NVIDIA · Undated living page
NVIDIA records its founding by Huang, Malachowsky and Priem on April 5, 1993; CUDA in 2006; and NVIDIA GPUs powering the AlexNet breakthrough in 2012.
Read source ↗NVIDIA Newsroom · 2020-05-14
NVIDIA announced that the Ampere-based A100 was in full production and shipping to customers worldwide.
Read source ↗OpenAI · 2022-11-30
OpenAI introduced ChatGPT as a research preview on November 30, 2022. This establishes a historical date, not an open-source license or a campaign affiliation.
Read source ↗NVIDIA Technical Blog · 2023-10-19
NVIDIA announced the public release of TensorRT-LLM as an open-source library for optimizing large-language-model inference on NVIDIA GPUs.
Read source ↗NVIDIA Blog · 2024-06-14
NVIDIA released Nemotron-4 340B models for synthetic data generation under its open model license. Model licensing is distinct from open-source software licensing.
Read source ↗NVIDIA Blog · 2025-04-14
NVIDIA announced work with manufacturing partners on Blackwell chip production in Arizona and AI supercomputer manufacturing in Texas. The announcement includes plans and expected ramp-up dates, not proof all planned facilities or economic benefits were delivered.
Read source ↗NVIDIA Newsroom · 2025-10-13
NVIDIA announced that DGX Spark would begin shipping, with a compact desktop form factor aimed at local AI development. This is the announcement date.
Read source ↗NVIDIA Newsroom · 2025-12-15
NVIDIA announced the Nemotron 3 family of open models, data and libraries, including open-source NeMo training and evaluation tools. Announcement does not mean every model size was available that day.
Read source ↗NVIDIA / SEC EDGAR · 2026-02-25
The annual report states dependence on the longstanding executive team and identifies risks from ineffective succession planning, knowledge transfer and executive transitions. It does not single out Huang in that risk paragraph or quantify a loss from his later departure.
Read source ↗GitHub Sponsors · ggerganov · Undated living page
Individual maintainer: Individual sponsorship to Georgi Gerganov, not a pooled project fund. The official destination was checked read-only. No payment was made or tested.
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Community project: Project sponsorship through vLLM’s official GitHub Sponsors account. The official destination was checked read-only. No payment was made or tested.
Read source ↗Linux Foundation · official donation page · Undated living page
Nonprofit foundation: Supports foundation-wide work, not specifically earmarked for AI. The foundation says donations are not generally deductible for U.S. taxpayers. The official destination was checked read-only. No payment was made or tested.
Read source ↗The manifesto presents supporter opinion. Its economic argument describes possible risks from losing technical continuity; it does not establish that the resignation caused a specific economic loss, that the board forced a departure, or that any particular succession outcome is guaranteed.
The hero uses the actual Jensen Huang / DGX Spark photograph selected by the project owner from BetaNews’s June 2, 2025 article. The article credits the image to NVIDIA. Its use does not imply endorsement. The leather-jacket logo is an original vector campaign mark.
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