Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands

OPINION Nvidia on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire open source AI evangelist and model depot Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a deal that's expected to close next year, assuming regulators don't get in the way. They should get in the way. As antitrust magnets go, Nvidia buying Hugging Face takes the cake. You wouldn't let an automaker acquire the primary means of fuel distribution. Nor would you let it buy the primary means by which the mechanics are trained. Yet, Nvidia's acquisition