What Nvidia’s $13B acquisition of Hugging Face means for AI model choice

When Nvidia said Thursday that it plans to pay $13 billion to acquire Hugging Face, the question arose of whether the open AI platform would remain open when it becomes a unit of Nvidia. And the current lack of a single viable open alternative that does everything Hugging Face does for enterprises adds further complications for CIOs. Rumors of the pending deal have been circulating for at least a week.