Hugging Face CEO Vows Open Source Fight After Nvidia Acquisition News

Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, slammed recent developments, calling the situation a 'really sad day' after Nvidia announced its intent to acquire the platform. In a post on X, Delangue vowed that the company would push open-source AI even harder going forward, stating the cause was 'too important to slow down now.'

Nvidia is planning to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, which would make it the second-largest acquisition in Nvidia history. This major move follows the $20 billion purchase of Groq's assets in December 2025. Although the deal is still scheduled to close in the first half of 2027, the U.S. Department of Justice began inquiries into the deal's impact on AI market competition in October, according to Reuters.

Delangue's declaration implies concern among open-source advocates about the future of the platform under Nvidia's control, especially since Nvidia pledged to maintain open support while gaining a dominant distribution channel.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had long been a massive cheerleader for open-source and open-weight models. In a July policy letter signed by 25 companies—including Microsoft, Meta, and IBM—Huang argued that models anyone can download and modify are essential to the AI ecosystem.

Huang’s commitment to the open AI movement also included a $6 billion deal with the startup Poolside in August, aiming to build an open AI ecosystem within the United States. Furthermore, Nvidia recently expanded its Nemotron family of open-weight models, which includes a 120-billion-parameter model for enterprise agents and two new lightweight Bolt models for PCs.

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