Nvidia will seine Macht zementieren – und kauft für fast 13 Milliarden Dollar eine Firma dreier Nerds aus Frankreich, die nach einem Emoji benannt ist
Hugging Face ist eine Plattform für KI-Modelle. Ausgerechnet ein Angriff durch KI-Agenten von Open AI hat die Firma berühmt und ihr Geschäftsmodell noch interessanter für Nvidia gemacht.
Nvidia, led by CEO Jensen Huang, has announced a deal to acquire Hugging Face, a French startup specializing in open-source AI models, for approximately $13 billion. Hugging Face provides a platform for developers to access, share, and train AI tools using open-source models and datasets. The acquisition is seen as a strategic move for Nvidia, as the market for open-source AI models grows and becomes increasingly important for the company.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue stated that the acquisition allows the platform to remain independent while continuing to grow. Delangue and his co-founders, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, are all in their late 30s and early 40s and originally from France. They met while studying at the École Polytechnique in Paris and decided to create a fun, yet technically challenging project inspired by the Japanese Tamagotchi virtual pet.
In 2017, Hugging Face gained widespread attention after Google researchers published a paper on the technology behind modern AI models, leading to the development of a Pytorch version of the model, which quickly gained popularity.
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