It's official: Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $13 billion

Philip FONG / AFP via Getty Images Nvidia has confirmed that it's buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a Thursday blog post that Nvidia had agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, confirming Business Insider's previous report that the two were in talks for a deal. "Together, we will scale Hugging Face's platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide," Huang wrote. This is a…