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Is hugging face acquisition a threat to the future of open source models?

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Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion is a major consolidation of the open-model ecosystem under the world’s dominant AI-chip company. Good thing or bad thing?

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  1. 2026-09-04 11:52 · r/LocalLLM
    Is hugging face acquisition a threat to the future of open source models?

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