Hugging Face CEO vows open-source fight after Huang exit
Original title: Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open-source AI after Jensen Huang’s exit
Nvidia’s $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal is still scheduled to close in the first half of 2027.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue called Jensen Huang’s departure a sad day and said the company will keep fighting for open-source AI. Nvidia announced in September a $12.9 billion plan to acquire Hugging Face, its second-largest deal after Groq assets. Reuters reported in October that the Justice Department was asking how the deal would affect AI competition. TechCrunch says requests on deal status and talks with interim CEO Collette Kress were not returned.
Unconfirmed: Whether Huang’s exit changes the acquisition or Nvidia’s open-source stance is not confirmed; comment requests were not returned.
- Delangue posted the pledge on X on November 12, 2026.
- The Justice Department began competition inquiries after the deal announcement.
- Nvidia pledged the platform would preserve open support.
- Huang’s July letter, signed by 25 companies, urged against over-restricting open-weight models.
- Nvidia last month expanded Nemotron with a 120-billion-parameter agent model.
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- US Department of Justice
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Hugging Face's CEO pledged to keep fighting for open-source AI after Huang's exit, raising questions about Nvidia's $12. 9B acquisition.
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