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Nvidia just dropped a $13 billion bomb: it’s buying Hugging Face, the open-source AI powerhouse known as the “GitHub for AI.” With this move, Nvidia aims to lock down control of the world’s most vibrant AI developer community — even as rivals race to build their own chips. Despite Hugging Face’s modest $150M revenue and last year’s rejection of a similar deal over concerns about being too dependent on one investor, Nvidia is doubling down. CEO promises Hugging Face will stay open and neutral — letting devs keep using their favorite tools — while quietly weaving it into Nvidia’s broader AI empire.

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