Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

KETTLE AI repository Hugging Face will soon be an Nvidia property, and while everyone's promising things will remain the same we at The Register's Kettle desk aren't so sure the status quo is going to stay the status quo at the AI industry's leading open model host.

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Joining host Brandon Vigliarolo this week is reporter Dan Robinson, who broke the news of Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition for El Reg yesterday, weighs in on what he heard during the announcement call, while senior reporter Tom Claburn opines on what he sees coming.

A lightly edited transcript is below: Brandon (00:01) Hello and welcome to another episode of The Register's Kettle podcast.

I'm Reg reporter Brandon Vigliarolo, and if you've been keeping an eye on things the past few days, you probably already know what the big tech news story of the week is, and that's Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition of AI repository Hugging Face.

With me to discuss this deal and what it might mean for the future of the AI sector for both companies and developers is our reporter Dan Robinson and senior reporter Tom Claburn.

Thanks for coming on, guys.

Tom (00:31) Thank you.

Brandon (00:31) All right, so Dan, you broke this story, I think it was just yesterday now, and you were on the conference call that Nvidia and Hugging Face leadership held.

So break it down for us.

What was the agreement here? What's the deal? Dan (00:45) Well, like you said, it was a $12.9 billion purchase from Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face, which is the home of open AI, as I've been told.

Brandon (00:59) Open source AI.

Dan (01:01) Well, open.