Hugging Face Co-Founder @Thom_Wolf thinks 2026 is officially the year of open-source: "The trend is pretty clear. 2026 is also the year of open source." "It's interesting because [people] keep saying open source is going to die for like four years now. I feel like in the constant chorus in the AI community, they can't keep up because of compute. What happened is that they can keep up." "Right now, it's still like, I don't know, 80/20 maybe in closed source / open source. I feel like it's…

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JUST IN: NVIDIA's $12,930,300,000 acquisition of Hugging Face contains an easter egg. The number 129,303 is the decimal conversion of Unicode point U+1F917. The 🤗 emoji.