Nvidia aims to broaden its AI dominance with Hugging Face deal

Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face accelerates the company's bid to extend its AI dominance beyond chips.

TL;DR

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to expand its AI ecosystem dominance.
The acquisition validates open-source AI and aims to diversify Nvidia's customer base.
Nvidia seeks to commoditize other AI layers to benefit its core semiconductor business.
Hugging Face has over 18 million developers and is used by more than 200,000 companies.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated Hugging Face will remain an open platform.
The deal offers Nvidia insights into trending AI models, datasets, and architectures.

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clem 🤗 reposted

etienne

Excited to share that I joined @huggingface🤗 as a ML Advocate Engineer in Robotics !

Will work on showcasing what LeRobot can do on various hardware, starting with @menloresearch Asimov robot, stay tuned ! 🤖 https://t.co/4K3SbQpkpw

clem 🤗 reposted

Victor M

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> We shipped an improved UX to make writing, drafting and publishing better.

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Elon Musk reposted

Jensen Huang

Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI.

Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me.

NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗

https://t.co/q8Om2Xc5ye

Elon Musk reposted

clem 🤗

Super happy to share our intention to join forces with NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition 💛💚

10 years after starting Hugging Face, open-source AI is at an inflection point. Thanks to the community, we’ve shown that it can be a complement, and even an alternative, to closed-source APIs. But for it to happen at larger scale, it needs more compute, more support, more collaboration and more visibility. That’s why we went to talk to Jensen, who offered to do exactly that with us.

In addition to doubling down on NVIDIA’s massive contributions to open-source AI (I called them the “King of American open-source AI” earlier this year), they’ve committed to strongly supporting Hugging Face and our mission while keeping the platform open, independent and compute agnostic. The founders and the team are all staying to keep pushing this mission forward.

Together, we think we can make open source the default way to build AI, with the goal of empowering 100 million AI builders to own their intelligence rather than rent it.

Excited about the next 10 years! 🤗🤗🤗

Aravind Srinivas

A repository of open models and tools to train and serve them in an accessible manner is absolutely necessary for AI to remain accessible and useful to the public. Glad that NVIDIA is coming forth to do that for the open source community by supporting HuggingFace.

Sundar Pichai

Congrats @JensenHuang @ClementDelangue for this great outcome! We were investors in Huggingface and continue to be partners and this will strengthen the open model ecosystem!

Satya Nadella

Looking forward to this ecosystem with open models continuing to flourish and grow with NVIDIA and Hugging Face, and the continued partnership. Congrats @JensenHuang and @ClementDelangue!