Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,000 units (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Nvidia has agreed to purchase Hugging Face, the open-source AI model repository, for $12.9 billion. The deal follows interest from several of Hugging Face’s investors, including Salesforce, and positions Nvidia to integrate the company’s extensive model library into its AI ecosystem.