Nvidia's $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Deal Reshapes the AI Open-Source Landscape

Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, making its biggest move yet into AI software. The chip giant now owns the "GitHub of AI," a platform hosting 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and serving 18 million developers. CEO Jensen Huang promises Hugging Face will remain an open platform where developers choose their own models, frameworks, and compute — Nvidia compute won't be required. For Nvidia, which has already released 500+ models on the platform, this acquisition...