Nvidia to spend $13 billion on Hugging Face, which will remain an open source platform

Chipmaker Nvidia is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a blog post on Thursday that more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators use Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 data sets, and 1 million applications. There’s also more than 200,000 companies that use the platform, he said.