Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, raising doubts over Nvidia's open source support
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday after admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, leaving open whether Nvidia will keep backing open-weight AI. Huang had pushed the Nemotron open-weight model family, backed startups like Reflection AI and Thinking Machines Lab, and organized an open letter signed by 25 companies urging Washington not to over-restrict open models. Nvidia has named CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO and has yet to finalize its $13 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face.
Why it matters: Huang's resignation leaves open-weight AI advocacy without its most visible corporate backer, while Nvidia's pending Hugging Face deal and its own business incentives suggest the strategy may outlast him.