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A $13 billion acquisition has a way of resolving the independence question, especially when the target spent last year turning down the buyer's money.
Hugging Face, the open-source model and data repository, declined a major investment from Jensen Huang's chip group specifically to preserve its autonomy.
Nvidia is now set to acquire the platform outright, buying the independence that Hugging Face spent the past year defending. The case for the deal is positional.
Hugging Face built itself into the central hub for open-source AI models and datasets, a repository that carries compounding network value: the more developers publish through it, the more indispensable it becomes to any party looking to distribute or access models at scale.
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