Nvidia bets big on AI, to acquire Hugging Face in $12.93 billion deal; Jensen Huang says it will remain ‘open platform’

Computer chip company Nvidia is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a blog post Thursday that more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators use Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 data sets and 1 million applications. There’s also more than 200,000 companies that use the platform, he said.