I’ve been overwhelmed and humbled by the fact that 99% of the reactions to our intent to join forces have been positive. ❤️ Prominent tech figures, including some you could see as having a competitive relationship with NVIDIA, have been vocally supportive: • @satyanadella: “this ecosystem with open models continuing to flourish and grow” • @sundarpichai: “this will strengthen the open model ecosystem!” • @miramurati: “A great home for Hugging Face to continue expanding access to open models and the tools that let people build with them.” • @alighodsi: “This will be great for the industry and open source.” • @AravSrinivas: “absolutely necessary for AI to remain accessible and useful to the public.” He added that he was glad NVIDIA was supporting Hugging Face and the open-source community. • @MichaelDell: “a big win for the whole ecosystem.” • @levie: “Another huge moment for open weights AI.” • @adcock_brett: “This is good for everyone building and open source.” • @elonmusk: “Congrats!” • @osanseviero: “The impact of HF in the AI ecosystem has been massive” Even more importantly, the community has been leaning into the announcement. Now we’ll get to demonstrate through our actions in the coming months/years that we will keep up the good work 🔥 This is a chance to make open-source AI so much bigger.