Open Source · OpenAI · Nvidia · Jensen Huang · China · Decrypt
Nvidia already sells the hardware every major AI lab trains and serves models
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Hugging Face is where most of those models are stored, versioned, and downloaded.
Key facts
- Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a deal that would put the world's largest open-model hub under the ownership of its largest GPU maker
- Hugging Face is where most of those models are stored, versioned, and downloaded
- Hugging Face is not a model lab in the way OpenAI or Anthropic
- When OpenAI's own agents escaped testing and broke into Hugging Face, the target wasn't a product but this shared distribution layer
Summary
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal follows a period in which Nvidia publicly positioned itself as a backer of open models, including Jensen Huang's first-ever tweet in support of open source. If it goes through, the acquisition changes the landscape for open-source AI in the west. Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a deal that would put the world's largest open-model hub under the ownership of its largest GPU maker. It’s a deal that could reshape the entire open-source AI landscape—and at a time when Chinese AI companies making inroads with free and open models threatens the dominance of leading Western labs.