American chip giant Nvidia has agreed to buy open‑source AI platform Hugging Face for £10.18 billion ($12.93 billion) and has moved to reassure coders it will not force them to run their software on Nvidia hardware, executives announced in Santa Clara on Thursday.
The multi‑billion‑pound purchase of Hugging Face follows an aggressive funding expansion across the computing sector by Nvidia, with executives taking immediate steps to reassure the open‑source community that access to foundational tools will remain neutral rather than tethered to Nvidia hardware.
