NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B: 'Code Is Now a Subset of ML'
Key Info
Hugging Face has announced its intention to join forces with NVIDIA in a $12.93 billion acquisition. Thom Wolf shared the news in person and reflected on the company's journey since 2016, noting that an old joke about code becoming a subset of ML has turned out to be true.
Highlights
- NVIDIA and Hugging Face are joining forces in a deal valued at $12,930,300,000, a major consolidation in open-source AI.
- Thom Wolf recalled Hugging Face's scrappy underdog days in 2016 and how far the field has come since then.
- The deal highlights the growing importance of open-source models and ML infrastructure in the AI ecosystem.