Why NVIDIA-Hugging Face deal may be the best outcome for open-source AI
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-09-03
An argument that NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face could be the best possible outcome for open-source AI: NVIDIA's incentives align with an open ecosystem — it wins when millions of developers run millions of models, not when one model wins. HF gains the infrastructure and capital to compete with closed platforms, and if NVIDIA keeps its multi-model, multi-cloud, multi-accelerator pledge, open-source AI could be massively strengthened.
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