TechCrunch · AI· Rebecca Bellan·· 18 h agoSame eventAI score78
Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, raising doubts over Nvidia's open source support
Jensen Huang’s exit puts Nvidia’s support for open source in question
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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.
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