🤗 Hugging Face promises to keep open-source AI alive
After Jensen Huang left Nvidia, the CEO of Hugging Face, which Nvidia agreed to buy for $12.9 billion, vowed to keep fighting for open AI.
The mystery
Open-source AI means models that people can freely download, study and run on their own computers. This week Nvidia, which plans to buy one of the biggest homes for such models, lost a leader who championed them. Will the open AI world feel the change?
The answer
Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, called Huang's exit 'a really sad day' but wrote on X that his company will push for open-source AI 'harder than ever'. Nvidia announced in September that it would buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, and the deal is expected to be completed during the first six months of 2027, while the US Department of Justice has asked how it could affect competition. Because Huang was a strong supporter of open-weight models, some now wonder how Nvidia will treat them under new leadership.
Now think about this
Should the tools that power AI be open to everyone, or controlled by a few big companies?
