AIFIRST NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
The brief
NVIDIA acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, with the AI community noticing an easter egg embedded in the exact acquisition price.
Key points
- Hugging Face co-founder Julien Chaumond and prediction market Polymarket both commented publicly on the deal.
- The acquisition is one of the largest in AI history and marks a major consolidation of open-source AI infrastructure under NVIDIA's ownership.
Sources
- redditreddit.com