Jensen Huang’s exit puts Nvidia’s support for open source in question
Nvidia’s $13 billion Hugging Face acquisition remains unfinished, with its open-model priorities now in the hands of interim CEO Colette Kress.
TechCrunch reports that Huang resigned after admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. He championed Nvidia’s Nemotron open-weight models, backed open-model startups and urged Washington against tighter restrictions on the ecosystem. Kress’s approach to those commitments remains unclear. The business incentive persists: a broader base of developers running their own models gives Nvidia more chip customers as major buyers develop competing hardware.
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TechCrunch reports that Huang resigned after admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. He championed Nvidia’s Nemotron open-weight models, backed open-model startups and urged Washington against tighter restrictions on the ecosystem. Kress’s approach to those commitments remains unclear. The business incentive persists: a broader base of developers running their own models gives Nvidia more chip customers as major buyers develop competing hardware.
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