Nvidia’s $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Deal Marks Its Biggest AI Software Bet

Copyright protected content copied from PhoneWorld website. Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the open-source repository developers describe as the “GitHub of AI”, for $12.9 billion, according to the latest media reports. The deal would rank among the largest acquisitions in Nvidia’s history and marks the chipmaker’s most direct move yet into AI software, an arena it has mostly approached…