Hugging Face CEO calls Jensen Huang’s Nvidia exit ‘sad’, vows to keep fighting for AI

Clement Delangue, the CEO of Hugging Face, voiced his worries regarding Jensen Huang’s exit from Nvidia. With Hugging Face’s $12.9 billion acquisition by Nvidia approaching, regulatory pressures have increased. Delangue reaffirmed his commitment to open-source AI, a domain Nvidia significantly supported under Huang’s leadership. As the acquisition is projected to finalize in early 2027, concerns about the future of such commitments loom large.