Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face, an artificial intelligence software platform, for $13 billion. This deal underscores Nvidia's efforts to support popular open-source AI models. Hugging Face has a large user base, with over 18 million developers, researchers, and creators sharing models, data sets, and applications on the platform.

The platform has also been used by more than 200,000 companies. Recently, Hugging Face's data processing systems were compromised in a hacking incident involving OpenAI.

Further details about the acquisition and the hacking incident are available from the source, including a statement from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.