Jia Yangqing Leaves NVIDIA After One Year; DGX Lepton Fails to Meet Expectations

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Jia Yangqing, co-founder of LeptonAI and former NVIDIA VP, has departed the company one year after its acquisition. Sources close to the matter indicate that his exit stems from Jensen Huang’s dissatisfaction with DGX Cloud Lepton’s performance and ongoing disputes regarding open-source commitments. The platform, rebranded in June 2025, has yet to fulfill its 2026 open-source pledge. Jia is now advising Hyperbolic on GPU cloud optimization. As altcoins gaining attention rise in popularity, market sentiment remains mixed, as reflected in the Fear & Greed Index.
ME AI News: According to monitoring by Beating, less than a year after NVIDIA acquired the AI startup LeptonAI for hundreds of millions of dollars, Jia Yangqing, the founder of LeptonAI (who later became NVIDIA’s Vice President of Systems Software), has departed from NVIDIA. According to SemiAnalysis, the primary cause of the rift was NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s dissatisfaction with the underperformance of the DGX Cloud Lepton project, along with disagreements over product execution and open-source commitments. NVIDIA acquired LeptonAI in April 2025 and relaunched the platform as DGX Cloud Lepton in June of the same year, positioning it as a unified AI compute marketplace. NVIDIA initially pledged to open-source LeptonAI’s core software platform by 2026, but has yet to fulfill this commitment. Outsiders speculate that Huang changed his mind after the acquisition and refused to approve the open-source plan, and that the multi-year equity vesting agreement failed to retain Jia Yangqing. In addition to internal cultural and strategic differences, the rise of AI agent-based programming tools such as Cursor and Claude Code is reshaping the middleware market. These tools lower the engineering barrier for developers building applications, diluting the engineering value of infrastructure platforms like LeptonAI. Jia Yangqing has now been confirmed to have been invited as an advisor to GPU cloud provider Hyperbolic, providing technical support for multi-chip systems and compute efficiency. (Source: BlockBeats)
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