U.S. Department of Justice Investigates Nvidia's $12.9 Billion Acquisition of Hugging Face
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an inquiry into Nvidia following its nearly $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a leading open-source platform for AI models and datasets. Regulators are seeking information to determine if the deal could negatively impact competition within the artificial intelligence sector. Hugging Face serves as a critical infrastructure provider with over 18 million users and 200,000 companies utilizing its repository of millions of models and datasets. This acquisition follows Nvidia's $20 billion purchase of Groq assets late last year, which also drew regulatory attention. The investigation highlights increasing antitrust scrutiny regarding major chipmakers expanding their influence into the software and model-hosting layers of the AI ecosystem.
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