Nvidia's interest in Hugging Face is a hedge against a future dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images Nvidia's interest in Hugging Face supercharges its push into open-source AI. Open models could keep OpenAI and Anthropic from gaining too much power and squeezing Nvidia out. While Nvidia could gain more control over Hugging Face, too much could backfire. What does $13 billion buy Nvidia these days? A bigger say in what AI gets built and what it runs on. Business Insider reported on Wednesday that the chip giant was in talks to acquire Hugging Face , which hosts open-source AI models. That lines up with Nvidia's strategy as of late, as it has been beating the drum about open-source AI — models that anyone can use and build on. Open models could stave off a future dominated by giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which create closed, proprietary models.