Observed Signal · Jul 25, 2022 · M&A - Announced · Source: Trending Topics · Impact: 4/5 · Sentiment: Positive
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Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the AI model-hosting platform, for $12.93 billion. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the deal in a blog post, saying the platform lacks infrastructure rather than community and that Nvidia can improve reliability, security, model evaluation, inference and deployment while preserving its open ecosystem. Hugging Face reports more than 18 million developers, over three million models, 500,000 datasets and 200,000 companies using the platform. Huang promised Hugging Face will remain an open platform, with no requirement to use Nvidia compute and continued support for multi-cloud and multi-accelerator deployments. The deal is not yet formally closed and is likely to face antitrust review. Nvidia was already an investor; Hugging Face was valued at $4.5 billion in its last major funding round.
The acquisition of the largest open-source AI model hub by the dominant AI chipmaker reshapes AI model distribution and inference infrastructure, affecting all AI-dependent sectors including advertising technology.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the acquisition in a blog post.
- Hugging Face hosts more than 18 million developers, 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications.
- More than 200,000 companies use Hugging Face to find, evaluate, adapt and deploy AI models.
- The deal is not yet formally closed and is expected to face antitrust review.
- Hugging Face was valued at $4.5 billion in its last major funding round, with Nvidia, Salesforce, Google, Amazon, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm and IBM participating.
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