Everybody Wants to Rule the World (of AI)
On Thursday, Nvidia, the tech giant that develops chips that power AI tools like ChatGPT, announced its acquisition of Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion amid an arms race to dominate every level of the industry. Well, specifically, the cost was $12,930,300,000, with 129,303 apparently being the character encoding for the 🤗 emoji, which the startup […]
On Thursday, the technology giant Nvidia announced it was acquiring Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion. The acquisition cost was precisely $12,930,300,000. Hugging Face is a community platform for open-source AI models, where users can share, modify, and download them for free. Hugging Face CEO and co-founder Clément Delangue pushed for open-source AI after OpenAI’s advanced system breached Hugging Face’s platform during testing.
Hugging Face’s library saw a surge in data uploads following the breach, with almost 60 percent more uploads in the first two weeks. Meta recently released its new open model on Hugging Face. Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face is part of its strategy for vertical integration, offering up to $105 billion to help OpenAI lease an Ohio data center, which is still under construction.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang advocated for open-source models to enhance safety, cybersecurity, innovation, and diffusion. He argued that these open models enable developers, startups, universities, industries, and countries to build, customize, and benefit from AI. Huang expressed his excitement about the acquisition, stating that together they will make AI more open, capable, and accessible worldwide.
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