NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face's 18 Million Users For $12.93 Billion
Jensen Huang promises NVIDIA compute will not be required to use the platform, which hosts 3 million models and 500,000 datasets.
- NVIDIA already supplies over 500 models and 250 open datasets to the site.
- More than 200,000 companies already use Hugging Face to discover and deploy AI tools.
- Hugging Face was built by founders Clem, Julien and Thomas, NVIDIA's blog post says.
Why it matters: NVIDIA does not sell chips anymore; it now owns the shelf where the world's AI models sit.