Nvidia confirms $12.9 billion deal to buy Hugging Face

TechCrunch’s Ivan Mehta reports that Nvidia has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, absorbing a platform hosting three million models, one million apps, and half a million datasets used by over 18 million developers.

Why it matters. Developers building on open models now route through infrastructure owned by the dominant AI chipmaker, even as Nvidia pledges no compute lock-in.

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