The deal may encourage adoption of open-weight models, but AI insiders worry Nvidia will subtly optimize these models to run on its own chips.

Execs said that Nvidia will maintain platform openness, but CIOs still need to reevaluate its use; the absence of a single viable alternative for enterprises complicates the issue.

Nvidia will buy popular developer platform Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion, betting that support for open AI models will drive future demand even as its biggest customers…

It was already rumored, but now we know.

GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem

The AI chipmaker says it will keep Hugging Face as an open platform

Nvidia will buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, seeking to strengthen its open AI presence as customers develop their own chips.

While industry players such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT operate on closed AI systems, Nvidia is expanding “open” models through Hugging Face.