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Hugging Face’s co-founders just landed a big sale to Nvidia. But how big, exactly, is it?
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue join 'Squawk Box' to discuss Nvidia's deal to acquire Hugging Face for for $12.9 billion, how the deal came about, the importance of open models,
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the deal will allow the company to "expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide."
Nvidia (NVDA) is buying AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a move that could extend Nvidia's reach in the AI ecosystem beyond being just a chip supplier. Futurum CEO Daniel Newman reacts to this headline news and what the acquisition of Hugging Face represents for Nvidia's growing market share of the AI landscape.
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang is making a big new bet on an open-source AI future. On Thursday, Huang announced that Nvidia, a major supplier of hardware to power AI applications, reached a deal to acquire Hugging Face - which operates a platform for building AI open-source models - for $12.