🤯 Nvidia buys open-source's soul for $12.9B
Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face, the open AI hub, at roughly 80x its annual revenue.
The irony cuts deep: closed labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are fleeing Nvidia hardware while Nvidia buys the open-source community that depends on it.
This is a chip company hedging its empire by owning both the shovels and the mine.
Watch what happens to Hugging Face's neutrality once its landlord makes GPUs.

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