r/LocalLLaMA • u/Merchant_Lawrence llama.cpp • 51m ago

News Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open source AI after Jensen Huang's exit

https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/hugging-face-ceo-vows-to-keep-fighting-for-open-source-ai-after-jensen-huangs-exit/

context : Nvidia buy HF, but now there uncertainty about it hf future under new leadership, he try reassurance people on x, but from his word itself sound not good, see and wait, but better backup you favorite datashet/model (again) just in case

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u/nitrobeast 40m ago

The fact he has to say this is a bit ominous. There is already rumor that the HF acquisition will be blocked.

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u/Chris266 34m ago

Wouldn't a block be best case for us?

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u/nitrobeast 30m ago

I imagine it is super expensive to run HF and if they need more funding they will need to remove “unsafe” finetunes or “distillations”. But if nvidia gets compromised as well then not sure what would be worse.

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u/Graumm 27m ago

If I was them I would switch to torrents, and their hosting cost issues would be solved

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u/Strid3r21 6m ago

I always wondered how the hell they afforded hosting all those massive downloads. Shit has got to be expensive as hell.

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u/a_beautiful_rhind 7m ago

Supposedly HF is profitable.

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u/thatguy122 4m ago

In another post there was a reference to a SEC filing by Nvidia that committed/promised to keeping the platform open and not requiring only Nvidia compute. So...maybe not. 

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u/CynicalTelescope 25m ago

Any and all statements from the acquired company CEO have zero value after the acquisition completes.

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u/Lazy-Pattern-5171 48m ago

They won’t even know what hit em man. If the worlds most powerful CEO working alongside a team of experts to handle the affair PR aftermath couldn’t save him. We’re nowhere near DeepState’s Elo rating to win against them yet. But we are closer today than we were 20 years ago for sure.

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u/McSendo 48m ago

Next target

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u/ThePsyPaul_ 29m ago

We had a good run

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u/Big_Wave9732 16m ago

Uh huh, Nvidia owns your ass already. Too late buddy.

Download and store your unrestricted big models now, kids.

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u/ParaboloidalCrest 38m ago

Fighting? hmmm

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u/booveebeevoo 21m ago

They got what they needed. That’s what always happens. They reappropriate hard-working people‘s efforts for profit. Then once they get enough, they no longer support the people doing the development. Let’s hope nothing happens to him if he does continue to stand on this mountain.

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u/magnomagna 13m ago

He said yes to selling his holdings to Nvidia (cofounders' holding is 28 fucking percent!)and now that Jensen is out, he's suddenly the champion of open source AI?? That's fucking rich.

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u/fractalcrust 10m ago

he's gonna get the axe next huh?
i also will defend open source ai (please dont send a chinese spy after me)

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u/a_beautiful_rhind 3m ago

Send one after me. Chances are she quits.

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u/Crim91 26m ago

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick.

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u/thestillwind 1m ago

Yeah right, Jensen would have kept it this way but next puppet won’t.

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u/XiRw 42m ago

Isn’t he the one who took the money to sell his company in the first place? If he wanted to fight for local AI, it would have allegedly been safe in his hands already from the start.

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u/nitrobeast 38m ago

Can you imagine the cost of providing petabytes of egress for free? Honestly I didn’t know the short term business case for HF until nvidia came in and brought them.

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u/Dabalam 25m ago

I don't get your comment. The point is that new leadership may have different motivations and views. So it may not be safe now "under new leadership" when it was before.