Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

Post by philipallstar » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC

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EEE is impossible already. They can't close pandoras box now. Why is it alarming for a shovel salesman to also sell plants?

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Post by pluc » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC

Post by aurareturn » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 10:21 AM UTC

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Arguably, this move will help AI open source market more. Nvidia has an incentive to make AI open source competitive with closed source. If OpenAI or Anthropic gains in market share, they will eventually gain power over hardware vendors as well, which Nvidia does not want. Nvidia wants people and companies to go choose a free open model, run that model on Nvidia hardware. And because Nvidia can't fully control what h…

Dude, the source of an LLM is the training data and the training algorithm. Those are not open, so stop calling it open source. Open weights correspond to "binary available" for software. Nobody would call that "open source". (Even ignoring the licensing which "open source" normally entails.)

Post by ggvnfnjff » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 10:22 AM UTC

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doe88 wrote: post #422

Nvidia for Hugging Face will be even worse than Microsoft for GitHub and we know now how low the bar is here.

I heavily disagree. Nvidia has a strong interest in open source AI being a strong contender to proprietary models. They don't want a single AI company to win, as that company would then have enormous leverage over Nvidia, and could perhaps even erode the Cuda moat with their own chip spending. They want the AI market to be hypercompetitive, with AI companies focusing on competing amongst themselves instead of with Nv…

Post by girvo » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 10:23 AM UTC

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"Labs" here specifically means "AI/LLM model lab", which that part of Nvidia is unquestionably one of the most open. Nvidia is also one of the most closed hardware developers around. Two things can be true.

Then this whole comment thread was a diversion though, as it was specifically about the hardware parts and not model training.