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[^3]\n\nHugging Face is a Franco-American artificial intelligence platform. [^4]\n\nThe acquisition illustrates Nvidia's strategy to diversify its position in the AI ecosystem through participations, acquisitions, or guarantees. [^5]\n\nIn a blog post, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that Hugging Face will remain an open platform for AI after the acquisition. [^6]\n\nJensen Huang explained that developers will continue to choose their own models, frameworks, clouds, inference service providers, and computing platforms without requiring Nvidia compute to build on or deploy through Hugging Face. [^7]\n\nThe announcement confirmed earlier reports from The Information that Nvidia had bought out Hugging Face. [^8]\n\nThe Information reported that the Astra model shows far less of its 'thinking' than other frontier AI models. [^9]\n\nThe reduced visibility of the Astra model's 'thinking' process is sparking concern that it could be dangerously hard to monitor. [^10]\n\nNvidia is a semiconductor giant based in Santa Clara. 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