NVIDIA bought the front door of the entire open-source AI ecosystem for $12.93B. The scale HF operates at: – 18M+ developers, researchers, and creators – 3M+ models – 500K+ datasets – 1M+ applications – 200K+ companies using the platform A few thoughts on why NVIDIA did this: • Owning the compute layer isn't enough anymore, distribution and discovery are becoming just as strategic • NVIDIA is already the largest contributor of open models/data to HF, 500+ models and 250+ datasets released…

Jensen Huang@JensenHuangSep 3

Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI. Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me. NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗 https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/