Nvidia just spent $12.9 billion on Hugging Face. Here's what it's really buying.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty ImagesNvidia's $12.9 billion deal with Hugging Face supercharges its push into open-source AI.Open models could keep OpenAI and Anthropic from gaining too much power and squeezing Nvidia out.As Nvidia gains more control over Hugging Face, too much control could backfire.What does $12.9 billion buy Nvidia these days? A bigger say in what AI gets built and what it runs on.Nvidia has acquired Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, giving the chip giant