Jensen Huang resigns as NVIDIA CEO after 33 years
Original title: [AINews] Jensen Huang resigns after 33 years leading NVIDIA
CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO, while Google ships Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small.
NVIDIA announced that Jensen Huang has stepped down as CEO, president and board member after 33 years. Colette Kress, CFO since 2013, remains CFO and becomes interim CEO ahead of next week’s earnings call. The roundup also covers Google DeepMind’s Gemini 4 Hydrogen launch and Apache 2.0 weights for Thinking Machines’ Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-total / 17B-active mixture-of-experts model.
Unconfirmed: Whether the board forced the resignation, and the scale of alleged Blackwell training by Chinese models, are debated.
- Reports of affairs, including one with an accused Chinese spy, preceded the resignation.
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen has a 1M context window and costs $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens.
- Google says Hydrogen is 2.5x faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash.
- Inkling 2 Small fits on one GB200/GB300 node and reaches up to 630 tok/s on vLLM.
- Organizations
- Google DeepMindThinking Machines
- Countries
- China
- AI models
- Gemini 4 HydrogenInkling 2 Small
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