Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion

Nvidia will acquire AI model hub Hugging Face for $13 billion, expanding its influence over the rapidly growing AI sector. The platform, which hosts millions of open-weight models and datasets, previously rejected a Nvidia investment at a $7 billion valuation to stay independent. Nvidia says the purchase will accelerate the distribution of open models that can be downloaded, customized, and run on users’ own hardware.