Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI
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Owning a platform with 3 million+ models and 18 million developers lets Nvidia steer the default choices for open-source AI while keeping workloads close to its GPUs. Teams betting on “neutral” OSS ecosystems should revisit that assumption and diversify their model and tooling dependencies.
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