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NVIDIA's $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal
TIME reports on NVIDIA's $12.9 billion deal for Hugging Face and the open-source/open-weight model distribution strategy behind it. Hugging Face is not a company in this universe, so only NVIDIA is tagged. The only figure carried in the cited article's headline is the $12.9 billion deal value.
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Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy popular AI library Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal is partly a hedge against an emerging threat: AI companies which consume enormous quantities of Nvidia hardware are increasingly developing chips of their own. In a future where AI becomes centralized in a small group of players with their own chips, those companies could demand lower prices from Nvidia or bypass it altogether. Hugging Face, an online hub where developers share open AI models and datasets, gives Nvidia a stake in an alternative future, where downloadable AI models allow startups and…