Nvidia confirms a $12.93 billion deal to buy Hugging Face, the open model hub of the AI industry
The repository the AI world built its habits around now has a single owner, and it is the company that sells the chips.
Nvidia said Thursday it will acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, taking ownership of the platform where more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators share over 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications. Chief executive Jensen Huang said Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem, supporting multiple clouds and accelerators without requiring Nvidia compute to build or deploy, and Clem Delangue continues as Hugging Face chief executive. Nvidia is already the platform's largest contributor of open models and data, having published more than 500 models and 250 open datasets there. Roughly 200,000 companies use Hugging Face to discover, evaluate, customize and deploy AI.
Scripture for Reflection
“Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.”
We can ask how faithfully we handle whatever has been entrusted to us, in small things and in large.
