NVIDIA appears determined to not only control the proverbial pickaxes (GPUs) in the ongoing AI gold rush but also the mining infrastructure itself, replete with acquiring one of the biggest distribution layers for open-weight models – Hugging Face. NVIDIA’s latent desire is to become the go-to compute provider for running inference on models hosted on Hugging Face As stated earlier, NVIDIA has just inked an agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. For the benefit of those who might not be aware, the platform is a huge repository for open-weight models, replete with impressive stats: While NVIDIA says that […]
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