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…