Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

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Nvidia has officially moved to acquire Hugging Face, the central hub for open-source AI models and datasets, in a massive $12.93 billion deal. This move consolidates the industry's most critical software repository under the dominant hardware provider, raising immediate questions about the future of open-source neutrality. For developers, this effectively merges the world's most important AI compute with its most popular model hosting platform.