What Nvidia’s $13B acquisition of Hugging Face means for AI model choice
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When Nvidia said Thursday that it plans to pay $13 billion to acquire Hugging Face, the question arose of whether the open AI platform would remain open when it becomes a unit of Nvidia. And the current lack of a single viable open alternative that does everything Hugging Face does for enterprises…
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NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion