Woofun AI reports that Jeff Yangqing, founder of LeptonAI and former NVIDIA Vice President of System Software, has resigned from NVIDIA just one year after the company acquired LeptonAI for hundreds of millions of dollars. The departure stems from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's dissatisfaction with the performance of the DGX Cloud Lepton project, alongside disagreements regarding product execution and open-source obligations.

NVIDIA acquired LeptonAI in April 2025 and rebranded the platform as DGX Cloud Lepton in June, positioning it as a unified AI computing marketplace. Although an initial commitment to open-source the core software by 2026 was made, this has not occurred, with speculation indicating Huang blocked the plan.

Concurrently, the rise of AI agent tools like Cursor and Claude Code is lowering development thresholds, diluting the value of infrastructure platforms. Yangqing has been confirmed to join GPU cloud provider Hyperbolic as an advisor to support multi-chip systems and computing efficiency.