NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face — and keep the AI platform open
NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face, the AI development platform, and keep it open, according to The Robot Report. NVIDIA is already a major model contributor on Hugging Face, which recently passed 1 million datasets.
For the 806: Hugging Face is where a lot of AI models and datasets get shared, and the chip maker would own it if this goes through. "Open" is the promise that matters here, and so far it's a line in one trade-press report: price, timing and what open means in practice aren't in what we saw. If you use free models or tools built on the platform, watch for changes to its terms more than the headline.