US Regulators Examine Nvidia's Planned Hugging Face Deal
The US Justice Department is looking into Nvidia's planned acquisition of Hugging Face, an open-source platform popular with AI developers. Antitrust regulators are also scrutinising Nvidia's sales practices. The review is still at the examination stage.
Quick glossaryNvidia, Hugging Face, antitrust, open-source
- Nvidia
- A US chipmaker best known for the graphics processors that power most AI computing.
- Hugging Face
- An online platform where developers share, find and download AI models and datasets.
- antitrust
- Laws and rules that stop big companies from abusing their market power or blocking fair competition.
- open-source
- Software whose underlying code is free for anyone to view, use, change and share with others.
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