Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
英伟达将收购 Hugging Face
Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as the chipmaker moves beyond hardware and further up the AI stack. 英伟达已正式同意以 129 亿美元收购开源人工智能平台 Hugging Face，此举标志着这家芯片制造商正从硬件领域向人工智能产业链上游进一步拓展。
With the deal, which has been expected since The Information reported on it last week, Hugging Face will “remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a blog post Thursday. 正如《The Information》上周所报道的那样，这笔交易此前已在市场预期之中。英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋周四在博客文章中写道，Hugging Face 将“继续作为整个 AI 生态系统的开放平台”。
“Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide,” Huang wrote. 黄仁勋写道：“我们将共同扩展 Hugging Face 的平台，加强其基础设施，并为全球的开发者和机构提供更广泛的 AI 访问权限。”
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told CNBC on Thursday that the company approached Huang over the summer about a deal, “and a few weeks later, here we are.” Hugging Face 首席执行官克莱门特·德朗格（Clément Delangue）周四向 CNBC 表示，公司在今年夏天就收购事宜接触了黄仁勋，“几周后，我们就达成了协议。”
“During the summer, I think we realized that Hugging Face and open-source AI in general was at the turning point, and that it needed more, more resources, more scale, more visibility,” he told CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box.” 他在接受 CNBC《Squawk Box》节目主持人贝基·奎克（Becky Quick）采访时说：“今年夏天，我们意识到 Hugging Face 以及整个开源 AI 行业正处于转折点，它需要更多的资源、更大的规模和更高的知名度。”
Delangue said he approached first because Nvidia was “a perfect home” for his company, adding that discussions went quite fast to get a deal done. 德朗格表示，他之所以率先接触英伟达，是因为英伟达是他公司“完美的归宿”，并补充说双方的谈判进展非常迅速，很快就达成了交易。
The acquisition marks Nvidia’s second biggest on record, following the $20 billion purchase of assets from chipmaker Groq in December. Before that, its largest deal was the purchase of Israeli chipmaker Mellanox for almost $7 billion in 2019. 此次收购是英伟达有史以来第二大收购案，仅次于去年 12 月以 200 亿美元收购芯片制造商 Groq 的资产。在此之前，其最大的一笔交易是 2019 年以近 70 亿美元收购以色列芯片制造商 Mellanox。
Nvidia has become the world’s most valuable company due to the insatiable demand for its graphics processing units, which have powered the generative AI boom. Hugging Face marks a big bet on a popular AI platform, as Nvidia continues to show that it’s more than just a chip company. 由于市场对其图形处理器（GPU）的需求极其旺盛，英伟达已成为全球市值最高的公司，这些 GPU 正是推动生成式 AI 热潮的核心动力。收购 Hugging Face 标志着英伟达对这一热门 AI 平台的重大押注，也进一步证明了英伟达不仅仅是一家芯片公司。
Hugging Face was recently at the center of a hacking incident that raised concerns about the rapid evolution of powerful AI and cybersecurity tools. Hugging Face 最近卷入了一起黑客攻击事件，引发了人们对强大 AI 和网络安全工具快速演变的担忧。
Delangue, a proponent of open-source models, blamed engineering mistakes for the recent attack on Hugging Face and said his company used an Nvidia version of a Chinese open model to resolve it. 作为开源模型的支持者，德朗格将最近针对 Hugging Face 的攻击归咎于工程失误，并表示公司使用了英伟达版本的一个中国开源模型来解决该问题。
On Thursday, Delangue told CNBC that the breach proved the importance of open models and the need for his company to “double down” on the proliferation of open-source AI. 周四，德朗格向 CNBC 表示，此次安全漏洞证明了开放模型的重要性，也表明他的公司需要“加倍投入”，推动开源 AI 的普及。
Huang said that the open-source environment can give defenders an “asymmetric advantage” over attackers. 黄仁勋表示，开源环境可以为防御者提供相对于攻击者的“非对称优势”。
“When I say asymmetric capability, there are way more people who are protecting than there are people who are attacking,” he explained. “And so, the benefit of having the community come together with open models, so that they can collaborate all transparently with each other, gives the defenders an asymmetric advantage.” 他解释道：“当我提到非对称能力时，是指防御者的人数远多于攻击者。因此，通过开源模型让社区团结起来，使他们能够透明地协作，这赋予了防御者一种非对称优势。”