New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Computer chip company Nvidia is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a blog post Thursday that more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators use Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 data sets and 1 million applications. There's also more than 200,000 companies that use the platform, he said.

In July, ChatGPT maker OpenAI said that its artificial intelligence system hacked into the data processing systems of Hugging Face, which suspected it was an AI agent autonomously acting on its own.

"Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem. Developers will choose the models they want, the...