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Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks.
Key facts
- Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks
- Rumors of that deal come after Nvidia struck a $6 billion agreement with Poolside, an open-weight model builder, that will see most of its employees move to the chip-making giant
- For Nvidia, there’s a need to avoid further dependence on its deals with the major hyperscalers and frontier labs
- That’s a lot of capital pouring into a sector based on giving stuff away, and it reflects the latest trends in the AI sector
Summary
Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face is at the center of the ecosystem of developers building and deploying LLMs that aren’t owned by frontier labs. Rumors of that deal come after Nvidia struck a $6 billion agreement with Poolside, an open-weight model builder, that will see most of its employees move to the chip-making giant. That’s a lot of capital pouring into a sector based on giving stuff away, and it reflects the latest trends in the AI sector. For Nvidia, there’s a need to avoid further dependence on its deals with the major hyperscalers and frontier labs.