NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion

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I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. Over the past decade, Clem, Julien, Thomas and the team at Hugging Face have built something remarkable: a vibrant home for the open model developer community. More than 18 million…

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1. 11:59
   First appeared on NVIDIA BlogNNVIDIA Blog
2. 12:10
   Discussion started on Hacker NewsHHacker News
3. 12:18
   Engadget started reportingEEngadget

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