Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $13B, Absorbing the Open-Source Hub Into Its Stack

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, pulling the de facto home of open-source AI models directly under the chipmaker that already powers most of them.

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, according to posts from @KolHaolam and @HitCongrats, in a deal that would place the central repository of the open-source model ecosystem under the company that sells the hardware to run it. If the funding-round details are the least interesting part of any acquisition, the strategic geometry here is the most interesting part of this one.

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