Rumor: Nvidia pivots to open source, plans to acquire Hugging Face
dnapway · x · 2026-08-29
Jcal speculates that Sam Altman's deal with AMD and plans to build custom inference chips provoked Jensen Huang into accelerating Nvidia's open source strategy. Rumors suggest Nvidia intends to acquire Hugging Face and Poolside, offering a full open source stack next year. Huang is also reportedly working on an open source self-driving project.
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