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Hugging Face CEO says Nvidia acquisition began with open-source pitch

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue said in a joint CNBC interview with Jensen Huang that Nvidia’s near-$13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face began with a pitch to Nvidia’s CEO.

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Nvidia's near-$13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face began with a pitch to the chip maker's CEO, Jensen Huang, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says in a joint CNBC interview with Huang.

Delangue said his team began to understand the growing importance of open-source AI over the summer. "So, we went…