NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face

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Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face, the central hub for open-source AI models, in a massive $12.9 billion deal. This move vertically integrates the world's dominant AI hardware provider with the primary platform where developers share and host model weights. While it solidifies Nvidia's ecosystem, the community is split on whether this helps or hurts the neutrality of open-source AI.