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After Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, CEO Jensen Huang departed on Thursday, prompting Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue to call it a "really sad day" while vowing to keep fighting for open-source AI. The exit follows Nvidia's second-largest acquisition ever and highlights governance and roadmap uncertainty for the open-source AI platform amid Big Tech consolidation.