Daily Pulse · · 13:00 CET · 12 min read · framework · NVDA
Nvidia Is Building the App Store of AI: Groq Runs the Models, Hugging Face Sells Them
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§1 — The thesis in one line
🟡 Nvidia is not buying a website. It is copying the most durable business model in technology: own the marketplace, sell the machine underneath it, and let everyone else supply the goods. Nine months ago it paid about $20 billion for Groq's assets — chips built to serve AI models cheaply rather than train them. On Thursday it paid $12.93 billion for Hugging Face, the place where the world's open models are found and downloaded. Those are not two deals. They are one: the engine that runs small models, and the shop that sells them. What Nvidia has bet on is that the AI market splits in two — a handful of enormous closed models at the frontier, and a vast, fragmenting tail of small open ones underneath — and that the tail is where the volume goes.
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