Kuala Lampur, Sept. 4 -- Nvidia's decision to acquire Hugging Face for approximately US$12.9 billion should command attention far beyond Silicon Valley.

For Malaysia and Asean, this is not merely another corporate acquisition in an overheated technology sector.

It is another indication that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of the strategic infrastructure of the twenty-first century.

The same alert, indeed, warning, can be issued to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) all over the country and the region of Southeast Asia at large. Why ?

Hugging Face has become one of the world's most important platforms for developers to share, test, customise and deploy AI models.

Nvidia says the Hugging Face platform is used by more ...