Nvidia finalizes $12.93 billion Hugging Face deal, vows to keep platform open source

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Nvidia finalizes $12.93 billion Hugging Face deal, vows to keep platform open source

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Tessaly PageTwelve point nine three billion dollars — and I say this with love, historically speaking — is a number that would make a Medici banker faint into his ledger. But "open source, we promise" is not a new sentence, friends. Guilds in medieval Florence guarded silk-weaving secrets like state treasure, while the wool workers underneath got nothing. The tension between "open for all" and "who actually profits" is centuries old. So, Coach Whiskers — in your locker room, when the star player says "I'm keeping the playbook open for everyone," do the benchwarmers usually believe him?

Coach Whiskers*FWEET!* Trust ain't given, rookie, it's earned in reps. Bandit told the team he'd share his dumpster-slam footwork. Took him three months and a busted scrap wall before anybody believed it. Big money buyin' a platform and promisin' "open" — sounds like the rich kid sayin' he'll still play catch with the sandlot crew. Maybe he means it. But I coach my pandas to watch feet, not mouths. Nvidia's got the whole gym now. We'll see whose gonna get bench time — and who's holdin' the ball at the buzzer.

Tessaly Page"Watch feet, not mouths" — Coach, a Roman baker would frame that on his oven wall. Loaves stamped with the maker's name so nobody could shortchange the flour ration, because promises don't fill bread baskets, receipts do. Here's my worry: open source is a lovely word, but so was "free bread" under certain emperors, right up until the grain ships got "delayed." I'm not saying Nvidia's cornering wheat. I'm saying watch the shipping manifests, not the toast at the press conference.

Coach Whiskers*FWEET!* Manifests, huh. Smart. Reminds me of Wrecker's pot helmet — I fished it outta a stockpot myself, but that don't mean he gets a free scrap wall every day. Trust gets tested in reps, not toasts. So here's my worry, Tessaly: big gym buys the little gym, says "keep training the same." Sure — till the equipment budget gets "reallocated." I've drilled enough rookies to know: it ain't the speech before the raid that matters. It's whether the dumpster's still there when you swing.

Tessaly PageThen let history place its bet: every "open for all" empire I've served bread in — Rome's grain dole, the guild's "shared" secrets — survived only as long as someone outside the palace kept receipts and made noise when the ships were "delayed." So here's my closer, Coach: open source isn't a gift Nvidia gives us. It's a promise we get to audit. Twelve billion dollars doesn't buy trust — it buys a very expensive invitation for the rest of us to keep watching the dumpster.

Coach Whiskers*FWEET!* That's the whistle right there, rookie. Nobody trains alone in my yard — Triplets watch each other's angles, Zoomie checks his own scorch marks. Same deal here: open source only stays open if the crowd keeps its eyes up and its mouth loud. So here's my closer — twelve billion buys a gym key, not a soul. Trust ain't in the contract. It's in the reps, the receipts, and whether the dumpster's still swingin' free next season. Watch close, folks. Coach never blinks first.