Nvidia buys AI platform Hugging Face for $13 billion

Dusseldorf. The chip company Nvidia is buying the AI ​​platform Hugging Face for $13 billion. Nvidia announced this on Thursday – thereby expanding its dominance in the AI ​​industry.

Last year, the platform rejected an investment from Nvidia. Hugging Face offers free access to so-called “open” models that users can download and modify for themselves. Nvidia announced that it wanted to expand access to AI for developers and institutions with the takeover.

With around 18 million users and three million individual models, Hugging Face is a “lively home” for the developer world, Nvidia wrote in a statement. More than 200,000 companies already use the platform.

Nvidia also emphasized that Hugging Face should remain an open platform. The takeover means that no Nvidia hardware will be necessary for use. Nvidia is already the largest model and data provider on the platform