Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Nvidia has released Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free beta tool that spreads local AI inference tasks across compatible computers on a network, enabling distributed processing without cloud services. The company also announced a $12.9 billion acquisition of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, its second-largest deal after the $20 billion Groq purchase.