Nvidia Is Buying AI Platform Hugging Face for $13 Billion
The deal highlights Nvidia’s push to champion increasingly popular open-source AI models. The post Nvidia Is Buying AI Platform Hugging Face for $13 Billion appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Chipmaker Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $13 billion.
It’s the latest deal by the company, whose processors are integral to the AI boom, and highlights Nvidia’s push to champion increasingly popular open-source AI models.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a blog post Thursday that more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators use Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 data sets and 1 million applications. More than 200,000 companies also that use the platform, he said.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/nvidia-is-buying-ai-platform-hugging-face-for-13-billion/
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