Story on MediaHeat · 2026-09-04 · the-decoder.com
Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon
- nvidia · capital · +5
Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies use the hub. CEO Jensen Huang promises to keep the platform open and hardware-neutral, but the deal also hands him a powerful distribution channel for compute. The article Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon appeared first on The Decoder .