India, Sept. 3 -- Nvidia has agreed to buy AI platform Hugging Face for about $13 billion, in what would be the biggest outright acquisition in Nvidia's history. The deal shows how Nvidia is using its huge financial power to expand its control and influence across the fast-growing AI industry. Nvidia wants to use Hugging Face to help make AI models more widely available and speed up the growth of open AI systems.

Hugging Face is one of the biggest platforms for AI models and datasets. It acts as a major online repository where developers can find, share and use AI models, datasets and applications. The platform has become a major supporter of "open" AI. Unlike closed AI models developed by companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic, open-wei...