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View More NewsIn brief Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal follows a period in which Nvidia publicly positioned itself as a backer of open models, including Jensen Huang’s first-ever tweet in support of open source. If it goes through, the acquisition changes the landscape for open-source AI in the west. Here’s why Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a deal that would put the world’s largest open-model hub under the ownership of its largest GPU maker.It’s a deal that could reshape the entire open-source AI landscape—and…
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On 15 June 1991, the volcano Mount Pinatubo on the island of Luzon in the Philippines erupted violently, releasing an ash cloud on a scale so vast that seeing a photograph of it boggles the human mind. The eruption spewed out something north of 17 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide. For context, that’s roughly equivalent to 1,700 Eiffel Towers’ worth of material ejected out of the ground and into the sky.The effects were global, albeit quite temporary. As a result of the explosion, NASA estimates that temperatures worldwide fell by about half a degree Celsius on average over the following…
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