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NVIDIA Just Bought the Town Square of Open-Source AI for $12.9 Billion. Here Is What You Should Actually Do About It

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On September 3, NVIDIA confirmed it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. The platform that hosts three million models, half a million datasets, and one million applications for more than 18 million developers will belong to the company that sells the hardware almost all of those models run on…

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  1. 2026-09-06 03:08 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    NVIDIA Just Bought the Town Square of Open-Source AI for $12.9 Billion. Here Is What You Should Actually Do About It

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