New Delhi, Nov. 13 -- Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue has pledged to keep supporting open-source artificial intelligence (AI) after Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO. The news raises questions over Nvidia's planned $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face and the future of its open-source AI push.

Delangue called Huang's exit a "really sad day" in a post on X on November 12. He said Hugging Face would not slow down its work to make AI models accessible, regardless of leadership changes at Nvidia. "We'll keep fighting for open-source AI, harder than ever. This is too important to slow down now," he wrote.

Huang has been strongly advocating for open source and open-weight AI models. This transition has therefore raised concerns amo...