🤖 Nvidia swallows Hugging Face for $12.9B
The world's biggest chipmaker just bought the open-source AI commons.
Hugging Face hosts models for 18M developers, the exact crowd Nvidia needs locked into its silicon.
This is not a hosting deal, it's a moat.
Every open model now has an owner with a GPU margin to protect.
Watch which labs start self-hosting the moment neutrality dies.
September 3, 2026 112 1
