NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $13 billion. The deal is expected to expand the ecosystem built around open-source AI tools and strengthen the semiconductor giant’s AI strategy.
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $13 billion (approximately ¥2 trillion). The acquisition is expected to contribute to the expansion of Hugging Face’s ecosystem, which promotes the widespread adoption of open-weight AI tools.
Founders Clément Delangue and Julien Chaumond looked back on the period in 2016 when they participated in a startup program in Manhattan. They said their goal at the time was to build a general-purpose chatbot, and that they later focused on the appeal and potential applications of user interfaces, even before the arrival of GPT.
The acquisition is expected to accelerate collaboration among companies and developers around the ecosystem of open-source AI models and tools built by Hugging Face. NVIDIA is expected to position this development as a core element of its AI platform strategy.
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