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Nvidia’s $12.9 billion agreement to acquire Hugging Face isn’t just a big number attached to a beloved open-source brand. It’s a signal about where power is consolidating in the A.I. economy. Nvidia built its dominance by owning the infrastructure layer, supplying the GPUs and systems everyone else needed to train and run models. This deal suggests the next stage of competition may be fought somewhere less tangible but more decisive: the places where developers decide which models to try, what tools to trust, and how A.I. systems actually get shipped.

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