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Jensen Huang Ends His 33-Year Tenure, Steps Down as NVIDIA CEO
NVIDIA's board accepted Jensen Huang's resignation on November 11. The CEO of 33 years formally stepped down, with CFO Colette Kress appointed interim CEO. According to WSJ, his departure was more tied to high-risk business: NVIDIA had provided billions of dollars in financial guarantees to AI cloud providers in exchange for chip purchases and revenue sharing. The pullback in venture investment following his exit has also raised concerns about AI startup funding.
Product Launches/Updates
Google ResearchFirst-partyAdvancing science & engineering with Antigravity’s /teamwork
Google Research announced that Antigravity's /teamwork (along with /boost and Deep Review) multi-agent workflows are now open to researchers and developers, and showcased results achieved in collaboration with Gemini 4 Argon, Gemini 4 Carbon, and Gemini 4 Hydrogen in areas including information theory, formal verification, molecular structure discovery, and kernel optimization.
llama.cpp v1.0.0 : A stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystem
Hugging Face's llama.cpp team has released llama.cpp v1.0.0 and ggml v1.0.0, providing downstream developers who depend on their interfaces a more stable API/ABI foundation; going forward, breaking changes will be signaled by a major version bump.
AI Stocks and Company Earnings
The DecoderJensen Huang's ouster likely traces back to Nvidia's risky business practices more than his personal life
According to the WSJ, Jensen Huang's ouster was more related to business operations than personal rumors. Under his leadership, Nvidia provided billions of dollars in financial guarantees for AI cloud providers and data center developers to buy Nvidia chips, in exchange for revenue sharing, with his son-in-law Nico Caprez leading the push for the program.
The DecoderAnthropic's IPO is six times oversubscribed and on track to become the largest public offering in history
According to The Decoder citing Bloomberg, orders for Anthropic's IPO exceed the shares available six times over, with up to $64.4 billion to be raised, plus $26 billion via private placements, targeting a valuation of about $1.4 trillion, which would surpass SpaceX's IPO.
Industry Trends
Latent Space[AINews] Jensen Huang resigns after 33 years leading NVIDIA
Latent Space's weekly AI news roundup, centered on Jensen Huang stepping down after 33 years as NVIDIA CEO, president and director, with the board accepting his resignation on November 11. CFO Colette Kress, in the role since 2013, will stay on and serve as interim CEO, Harvey Jones becomes the board's first chairman, and the board has launched a successor search.
TechCrunch · AIJensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has formally stepped down, and investors and founders are worried his departure will sharply shrink the company's startup investments. Per PitchBook, Nvidia has participated in 105 funding rounds this year, often as the largest investor, with a focus on backing neoclouds.
TechCrunch · AIJensen Huang didn’t show confidence in his successor, report says
According to the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said at a summer meeting that CFO Collette Kress, who took over as interim CEO, was "a deer in the headlights," and said she could not help him grasp strategy and decisions.
Tips and Opinions
The Verge · AIWhat’s really at stake in the Jensen Huang saga
On The Vergecast, David Pierce and Nilay discuss the fallout after Jensen Huang stepped down as Nvidia CEO on Thursday, covering Nvidia's China business, the US government's stance, and the chain of knowledge incoming Democrats may probe, while speculating who will succeed Huang as the AI industry's figurehead.
The DecoderFormer OpenAI researcher says he found Nvidia Blackwell fingerprints hidden inside six Chinese AI models
Former OpenAI researcher Will DePue says six Chinese models released since April 2026 carry Nvidia Blackwell-generation traits, and has published verification code on GitHub; DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi K3 are claimed to match real Blackwell chips exactly, and senior researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic have independently verified the findings.