Nvidia, Stripe race to buy up open-weight AI infrastructure

Nvidia is reportedly closing in on a $13 billion deal for Hugging Face after a $6 billion Poolside acquisition, and Stripe just paid over $7 billion for OpenRouter.

Why it matters. Nvidia gains a foothold in model distribution just as its biggest customers, OpenAI and Google, build their own inference chips.

Signal from TechCrunch (AI) · Tim Fernholz · read the original.

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