DevOps / SRE / Platform · 28.08.2026, 16:04 UTC
Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion to keep open models on its chips
| Schweregrad | info |
|---|---|
| Kategorie | DevOps / SRE / Platform |
| Quelle | The New Stack ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 28.08.2026 UTC |
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Nvidia agreed to pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face this week, The Information reported. The purchase feels similar to when Microsoft bought GitHub.
Nvidia followed developers. It bought the place they already go for AI models. Meanwhile, Anthropic and OpenAI are selling a premium into a market that’s increasingly treating free as the default.
It’s getting easier to run those open models, too. Earlier this week, Ollama shipped a release that lets Claude Desktop run Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi. You open Anthropic’s app, click the model picker, and pick Kimi K3 instead of Opus 5.
Open models moved into the tools developers already use
Our own Paul Sawers covered the Ollama release for The New Stack. Version 0.33.0 launched on August 21 and uses a local proxy to get around Claude Desktop’s block on non-Anthropic model IDs. Flip “Use Ollama models” in the Mac menu bar, and whatever you’re running, locally or on Ollama Cloud, shows up in Anthropic’s model picker. “Open models should be easy to run, easy to build with, and available wherever people need them,” Ollama CEO Jeffrey Morgan said. The company raised a $65 million Series B in July.
The hardware is catching up, too. Apple launched new Mac Mini and Mac Studio …
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