Hugging Face CEO Vows to Keep Fighting for Open-Source AI After Jensen Huang Exits

At a glance

After Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stepped down, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue posted that he will keep fighting for open-source AI. Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face, and the U.S. Justice Department is looking into how the deal would affect competition.

Key points

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   Nvidia announced in September that it would buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

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   The U.S. Justice Department started examining how the deal would affect competition in the AI market.

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   The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.

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   Jensen Huang has long backed open-source AI and open-weight models that anyone can download and run.

Why it matters

It shows what could happen to open AI models, which anyone can use, when large companies take control of the platforms that share them.