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Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face

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Re: Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face

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Post by deaton »

LtWorf wrote: post #12
unddoch wrote: post #3

Theoretically, can Nvidia direct Hugging Face to sue OpenAI now for the hack? Surely they could find some interesting stuff in discovery :)

Why would they sue one of their most important customers?

Not to mention that they own a 10% stake in OpenAI

Re: Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face

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Post by sschueller »

echelon wrote: post #5
archonis wrote: post #2

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Hugging Face has no path to substantial profitability and the investors and employees want liquidity. Nvidia doesn't want this to look like a bubble pop (as they have lots of GPU data center build outs to complete), they've got plenty of cash on hand, and they're an extremely good natural fit for the company. Nvidia is seeing its top frontier model customers develop their own chips to sidestep Nvidia and as a counter…

> Nvidia is investing in the open source ecosystem

Wasn't always the case and will probably only be as long as there is a self interest.

> Linus Torvalds himself noted that the AI boom changed NVIDIA, turning them into a much better contributor to the Linux kernel Linus Torvalds: AI CHANGED NVIDIA.

Re: Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face

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Post by jackb4040 »

oh_no wrote: post #7
hmokiguess wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was also theorizing that part of their acquisition was to get more intel on that, though I feel like in practice that whole thing right now is just theatre for inflating the cybersec market

the last thing nvidia would want is to make ai look more legally risky to say nothing of their massive investments direct and indirect in openai

Yep. In fact, eliminating that risk on OpenAI's behalf was probably a small factor in the acquisition
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