Hugging Face CEO on Jensen Huang’s exit: “We’ll keep fighting for open-source AI”

Clem Delangue, Hugging Face’s CEO, posted on X after Jensen Huang left Nvidia. He said it’s a really sad day and that he wishes none of it had happened. But he added that Hugging Face is going to keep fighting for open-source AI, harder than ever. Huang was one of the biggest backers of open models, and Nvidia is mid-deal to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B. So people are wondering if Nvidia’s stance changes without him. The deal is still set to close in the first half of 2027.