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On CNBC's Squawk Box alongside Huang on September 3, the Hugging Face CEO said the company initiated the deal over the summer: "we realized that Hugging Face and open-source AI in general was at the turning point, and that it needed more resources, more scale, more visibility." Huang matched it: "I am honored that Clem came to me as he considered the next chapter of Hugging Face." A seller-initiated framing reads as an admission that a neutral open-weights hub couldn't fund itself against frontier-lab economics. CNBC
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$12,930,300,000. Not "about $13 billion." That exact figure is in Jensen Huang's September 3 post, and the precision is the first sign this is a signed agreement rather than the leak-stage reporting we got in late August. NVIDIA's blog frames the platform in the numbers that m...
On the August 26 earnings call Huang said "AI has reached its inflection point. It's doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue," and dismissed the AGI debate as "kind of senseless" in favor of whether AI does profitable work (CNBC). N...
8.3% stake in the Amsterdam-based neocloud planning 5+ GW of data center capacity by 2030. Jensen Huang called Nebius "an AI cloud designed for the agentic era." The neocloud layer (Nebius, CoreWeave) is becoming infrastructure between hyperscalers and AI companies. CNBC
TechCrunch strings together three deals: Nvidia's reported $13 billion Hugging Face acquisition, its $6 billion Poolside arrangement, and Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter for over $7 billion about two weeks before August 28. The thesis is acquirers hedging against frontier-l...
Huang used his inaugural X post on July 24 to publish "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," a three-page letter on Nvidia's own servers signed by 25 companies including Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Mistral, Mozilla, Hugging Face, a16z, Palantir and the Linux Foundation. Within a...
This is a supply-chain fact, and most people are still treating it as a geopolitics argument. Sequoia published "America's Open-Model Paradox" on July 24 with the number that reframes the whole conversation: Qwen's share of open-model fine-tunes went from 1% in January 2024 to...
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