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At IFA, Lenovo unveiled a wave of new hardware, including RTX Spark-powered Yoga laptops aimed at creative professionals and an affordable, colorful IdeaPad Vibe series targeting students and budget buyers. The Vibe starts at $700, matching the MacBook Neo's price, but ships with only 8GB of memory and a 256GB SSD, and Lenovo confirmed there's no student discount planned for it.
Nvidia confirmed Thursday it has struck a deal to purchase Hugging Face, the widely used open-source AI model repository, for nearly $13 billion. The announcement ends weeks of speculation about a potential acquisition. CEO Jensen Huang pledged the platform will remain open to the broader AI community after the deal closes.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the AI development platform known for hosting open-weight models, in a deal valued at $13 billion. The acquisition strengthens Nvidia's position in the open-source AI ecosystem beyond its core chip business.
Nvidia has agreed to purchase AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion, a huge jump from the $7 billion valuation the startup rejected from Nvidia just last year to stay independent. The chipmaker says the acquisition will accelerate adoption of open-weight AI models, which let developers download and customize systems rather than rely on proprietary offerings from firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. The deal, expected to close by 2027, surpasses Nvidia's 2020 purchase of Mellanox as its biggest acquisition to date.
Nvidia showed the first working laptop built on its RTX Spark superchip, the Lenovo Yoga 9n, a 16-inch 2-in-1 with an OLED touch display, six speakers and a 9.2-megapixel webcam. The chip pairs an Arm-based Grace CPU with up to 20 cores and a Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 6,144 cores in a single system-on-a-chip, letting the laptop measure just 0.69 inches thick, nearly matching the MacBook Pro. Nvidia also revealed mini desktop PCs using the same chip, aimed at running local AI workloads.
Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, confirming earlier reports of the deal. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told CNBC he personally reached out to Nvidia's Jensen Huang over the summer, saying talks moved quickly once initiated. Huang said the platform will remain open to the broader AI ecosystem while gaining more scale and infrastructure support.
Nvidia has formally agreed to buy Hugging Face, the developer platform known for hosting open-source AI models and datasets, in a deal worth close to $13 billion. Nvidia says it will keep Hugging Face's open standards intact, expanding its own push into free, customizable AI tools like its Nemotron models.
Nvidia has officially completed its purchase of Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, ending weeks of speculation. Hugging Face's platform, which hosts three million models, one million apps, and half a million datasets for over 18 million developers, will remain open, according to CEO Jensen Huang, who pledged that Nvidia hardware won't be a requirement for using the service.
Nvidia announced a deal to purchase open-source AI platform Hugging Face for roughly $13 billion, news that broke alongside the close of the G20's two-day Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill. At the summit, tech leaders including Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Sam Altman pushed governments to treat AI adoption as essential, while officials debated the costs and benefits of data center expansion.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the company is acquiring Hugging Face, the open-source AI model-sharing platform, in a deal worth $12.93 billion. Huang said NVIDIA plans to scale the platform's infrastructure and broaden AI access, while pledging Hugging Face will remain open to the entire ecosystem without requiring NVIDIA hardware. The deal, still subject to regulatory approval, follows NVIDIA's earlier investment in Hugging Face during a 2023 funding round.
RPCS3 developers publicly criticized Nvidia's unreleased DLSS 5 technology after modders leaked and tested the DLL on games and the PS3 emulator itself, calling the results 'slop' and accusing the industry of using upscaling and frame generation to mask poor optimization. Some users pushed back, arguing that DLSS and FSR frame generation can work alongside optimization efforts, with Reflex helping offset added latency. RPCS3 says it won't adopt such techniques, noting PS3-era games lack the motion-vector data needed for modern temporal upscalers.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model repository used by over 18 million developers hosting more than 3 million models, in a deal valued at roughly $12.93 billion. Nvidia says Hugging Face will keep operating as an independent, open platform, allowing developers to use any framework, cloud or hardware, not just Nvidia's own chips.