Hugging Face goes from a ‘scrappy’ startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition

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What happened
The deal stands to encourage more mainstream adoption of open-weight models, but AI insiders worry Nvidia will subtly influence them to all run on its hardware.
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