This cycle of M&A could reshape BigTech and expand the Pantheon for decades to come. This creates a global context where the U.S. is more likely to abuse its power geopolitically in the years ahead.
Nvidia agreed to pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, valued at $4.5 billion in 2023. More than 200,000 companies use it to find and deploy models. This piece asks whether the biggest GPU maker should be custodian of that hub, including for the Chinese labs that release open weights there.
From the robotics side, Nvidia already publishes open physical-AI datasets and driving models on Hugging Face. It now owns the shelf where its own releases sit next to everyone else's.
Cannibalisations
This cycle of M&A could reshape BigTech and expand the Pantheon for decades to come. This creates a global context where the U.S. is more likely to abuse its power geopolitically in the years ahead.
Nvidia agreed to pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, valued at $4.5 billion in 2023. More than 200,000 companies use it to find and deploy models. This piece asks whether the biggest GPU maker should be custodian of that hub, including for the Chinese labs that release open weights there.
From the robotics side, Nvidia already publishes open physical-AI datasets and driving models on Hugging Face. It now owns the shelf where its own releases sit next to everyone else's.
Its already abusing it's power.
Almost all dominant AI firms are based in US.
The money and resources pooled into this arms race has to end some day.