GoKawiilDOJ reportedly questions Nvidia over $13 billion Hugging Face acquisition
Reuters reports the Department of Justice has asked about how Nvidia's roughly $13 billion purchase of Hugging Face, agreed in September, could affect competitors in the AI market. Hugging Face runs an open-source platform for hosting and testing AI models and also sells AI infrastructure, which appears to be the focus of the DOJ's inquiry.
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The inquiry adds to a pattern of government scrutiny of Nvidia, which has already faced a Biden-era antitrust review, reported interest from the Trump administration in breaking up the company, export controls on its AI chips, and an ongoing three-year investigation tied to its SchedMD acquisition. If regulators conclude the Hugging Face deal locks competitors out of a key distribution channel, it could shape how aggressively Nvidia is allowed to expand into AI infrastructure and software going forward.
- DOJ has reportedly made inquiries about Nvidia's $13 billion Hugging Face acquisition's effect on competition.
- Nvidia is already under a separate three-year DOJ investigation stemming from its SchedMD purchase.
- Nvidia also faces scrutiny over chip allocation practices and its $20 billion acquisition of Groq.
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