Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal for Hugging Face, reports say
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If Nvidia absorbs Hugging Face, the open-source AI commons becomes vertically integrated into the leading hardware vendor—model distribution, community, and infra would sit on the same balance sheet. For operators, that would tilt the build-vs-buy calculus toward Nvidia’s ecosystem and make true vendor-neutral model strategy harder to maintain.
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