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Nvidia Hugging Face acquisition and AI expansion
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FIRST ENTRY SEP 04
SEP 04 · Day 1
Nvidia's investments grow to $99 billion as major AI company backer
More than 18 million people use the Hugging Face platform to share more than 3 million models and 500,000 datasets, and it is used by more than 200,000 companies, according to Nvidia.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia was the largest contributor of open models in the world.
Nvidia paid $20 billion for chipmaker Groq's assets.
SEP 04 · Day 1
Nvidia acquires open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9bn
Jensen Huang wrote that Hugging Face will stay open-source and developers will not have to use Nvidia technology.
Nvidia acquired the AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.
Hugging Face was founded in 2016 in New York City.
“To the millions of builders on Hugging Face: thank you for pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We can't wait to build the future together with you. Together, we will make AI more open, more capable and more accessible to people and institutions around the world.”
JENSEN HUANG
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