Nvidia-Hugging Face deal could require an enterprise AI rethink

Open source makes AI more accessible by lowering the barriers to experimentation and adoption, said Jon Carvill, senior vice president of marketing at AI chip maker Nuvacore. “Bringing Nvidia and Hugging Face closer together should help accelerate that choice, access and innovation,” Carvill said.

But there are still unanswered questions around whether Hugging Face will remain open and how much proprietary control Nvidia might exert, said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates.

Microsoft traveled a similar path with its acquisition of open-source repository GitHub, which “did not really pan out as well as Microsoft hoped,” Gold said. “With Nvidia’s acquisition, will it still be as open to competitive hardware-software access, or will there be some barriers employed?”

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