Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

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Nvidia has officially moved to acquire Hugging Face, the industry-standard repository for open-source AI models, for nearly $13 billion. The deal effectively consolidates the world's largest AI model hub under the primary hardware provider, giving Nvidia direct influence over how millions of developers build and deploy their stacks. This marks one of the largest strategic consolidations in AI history.