Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

It was already rumored, but now we know.

www.theverge.com/tech/985474/nvidia-buying-hugging-face-deal

“Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem. Developers will choose the models they want, the frameworks they want, the clouds and inference service providers they want and the computing platforms they want. Nvidia compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face.”

Uh-huh. So why did they buy it then?