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What if Nvidia, the company best known for powering the AI boom with its chips, decided it wanted to own a much bigger piece of the software side too? That may be happening. Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face, one of the biggest platforms for sharing and developing open-source AI models, for about $12.9 billion, according to The Information. But there is an important caveat:
A local AI startup that many people had never heard of a few years ago has just been acquired by one of Africa's leading technology companies. And it was not building another ChatGPT clone. It was teaching artificial intelligence how to sound Nigerian.
It was supposed to be a big win. A fast-rising AI startup. A multi-billion-dollar exit. And one of the biggest tech companies in the world, Meta writing the cheque. But now? The story has taken a sharp, almost cinematic turn.
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