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.
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…