Hugging Face CEO responds to Jensen Huang's departure
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After Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's departure, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said on X that it was a "very sad day" and that he would "fight for open-source AI harder than ever." The context is that Nvidia announced in September that it would acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion; the U.S. Department of Justice in October has already opened inquiries into the deal's impact on competition in the AI market, and the deal is still planned to close in the first half of 2027.
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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's departure a "really sad day" and said the company will "keep fighting for open-source AI, harder than ever." Nvidia announced plans in September to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a deal still scheduled to close in the first half of 2027 and under Justice Department scrutiny over competition concerns. Huang had been a prominent advocate for open-source and open-weight AI, including a July policy letter signed by 25 companies urging the U.S. government not to over-restrict open-weight models.
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