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Hugging Face goes from a ‘scrappy’ startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition

The deal stands to encourage more mainstream adoption of open-weight models, but AI insiders worry Nvidia will subtly influence them to all run on its hardware.

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Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Beatrice Nolan. In today’s issue: Reporting on AI every single day has admittedly made me bit numb to the astronomical sums of money flowing into the industry, but today my eyes did a cartoonish pop when I saw how much Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for.

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