{"id":1033480,"date":"2026-09-05T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033480"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:29:18","slug":"the-deeply-nerdy-founders-behind-nvidias-13-billion-bet-on-hugging-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/05\/the-deeply-nerdy-founders-behind-nvidias-13-billion-bet-on-hugging-face\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018deeply nerdy\u2019 founders behind Nvidia\u2019s $13 billion bet on hugging face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of nerdy Frenchmen came to New York to build a sassy chatbot for teens. A decade later, their startup has grown into an AI platform that\u2019s a pillar of the tech ecosystem, and a linchpin in the strategy of the world\u2019s most valuable company.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia agreed on Thursday to buy their AI company, called Hugging Face, for roughly $13 billion, doubling down on the chipmaker\u2019s effort to challenge the dominance of proprietary AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of nerdy Frenchmen came to New York to build a sassy chatbot for teens. A decade later, their startup has grown into an AI platform that\u2019s a pillar of the tech ecosystem, and a linchpin in the strategy of the world\u2019s most valuable company. Nvidia agreed on Thursday to buy their AI company, called Hugging Face, for roughly $13 billion, doubling down on the chipmaker\u2019s effort to challenge the dominance of proprietary AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033481,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033480\/revisions\/1033481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}