Nvidia takes the hub of open-source AI with a reported $12.9B Hugging Face buy
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, where developers share and ship open-source models, for $12.9 billion. It is a defensive play on two fronts: owning the open-model ecosystem keeps customers tied to Nvidia silicon, and a healthy open scene dilutes the closed labs busy building their own chips to escape it. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue has spent the year aligned with Nvidia's open-source push.