Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang vows to keep Hugging Face ‘an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem’

Nvidia Corporation announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. While rumors and speculation about Nvidia’s potential play had been swirling for weeks, the chipmaker has now made it official. Hugging Face, which is something of a GitHub for AI, has a library of models and datasets that should make Nvidia an even more dominant player in the AI ecosystem. Shares of Nvidia were up roughly 1.45% in early trading on Thursd...