Why Nvidia's $12.9B bet on Hugging Face may keep US open models alive
taseleighixkh · reddit · 2026-10-22
Sharon Goldman argues that essential open infrastructure like Hugging Face can be hugely influential without generating revenue to match—which is why Nvidia's $12.9B deal matters: the Paris-founded platform hosting 3M+ models gets resources to stay open and neutral instead of stalling on funding. She adds a geopolitical angle: if US labs stay closed, China ends up supplying the open models everyone else builds on, making strong US open models and a funded, neutral Hugging Face both worth backing.
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