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People, product, profit. In that order, always.Week 36 · 29 August to 4 September 2026 · No. 1

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Nvidia pays $12.9bn for the open model library

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, about £9.57bn, in one of its biggest deals ever. The chip maker now controls the platform where most open AI models are published and downloaded.

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