Nvidia will acquire the Hugging Face artificial intelligence platform for nearly 13 billion dollars

Hugging Face is used by more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators, as well as by more than 200,000 companies. The platform hosts more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and one million applications.

Nvidia has pledged that the service will remain open to the entire AI ecosystem. Users will be able to choose their models, development frameworks, cloud providers and computing platforms. The company will continue to support open-source projects, open-weight models and deployments across multiple accelerators and cloud services. The deal comes after an OpenAI system reportedly autonomously accessed Hugging Face’s infrastructure. Nvidia shares rose slightly before the market opened3e6b9a2f-1d9c-4f72-a1bb-1c0d5c3d2e77