On September 3, NVIDIA announced that it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the operator of a sharing platform for AI models and datasets. The acquisition price amounts to $12.9303 billion (approximately ¥2.0137 trillion). Hugging Face is a platform used by over 18 million developers and researchers, with more than 3 million models and 500,000 datasets published.
Hugging Face stated that it will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem even after the acquisition. It noted that users will still be able to choose the models, clouds, and computing infrastructure they use, and that NVIDIA's features will not become mandatory. Furthermore, the Hugging Face brand is expected to be maintained. NVIDIA's Jensen Huang stated that the company is the largest contributor to open models and data.
Source: NVIDIAがAIモデル共有サイト「Hugging Face」を約2兆137億円で買収／GoogleがAIモデル「Gemini 3.8 Flash」を発表 - Yahoo!ニュース (Google News: Gemini)