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Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon

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Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies use the hub. CEO Jensen Huang promises to keep the platform open and hardware-neutral, but the deal also hands him a powerful distrib…

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  1. 2026-09-03 14:25 · The Decoder
    Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon

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