NVIDIA Reportedly Makes A $12.9 Billion Power Play To Buy Hugging Face
The internet's largest hub for acquiring open-weight AI models has been reportedly shopping itself around, and NVIDIA may just be the company to snatch it up. Hugging Face is synonymous with model distribution (and also AI-related security incidents), and is absolutely essential in the current AI ecosystem. Reportedly, this acquisition could cost NVIDIA $12.9 billion if the deal goes through.
If you've been playing with (or seriously using) local AI models in a home server environment, there's a very high chance that the tutorial you followed included creating a Hugging Face account and generating an OAuth token. The reason for that is it's the largest repository of open weights on the internet, and every big AI model developer has a presence there. Whether you're serving local AI models like Qwen in your basement, or building out a datacenter to serve open frontier models like Kimi K3 or Deepseek...
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