NVIDIA and Hugging Face announcement on open models

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-09-03 · Open on X

Topics: Industry Trends & Job Market · Level: beginner

Summary

The creator celebrates a quoted NVIDIA announcement about Hugging Face; the excerpt doesn't say what was announced. The quoted post argues that open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, speed up innovation, and give developers, startups, universities and countries sovereignty over the AI they build.

Key points

• NVIDIA posted an 'exciting day for NVIDIA and Hugging Face' announcement. The excerpt does not give details.
• NVIDIA's case for open models: they strengthen safety and cybersecurity, speed up innovation and adoption, and enable sovereignty.
• Open models let any developer, startup, university or country build with and customize AI.
• The creator sees it as a win for open-source AI.

Resources mentioned

• Hugging Face · website · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Platform for hosting and finding ML models, datasets and papers. The quoted post says LocateAnything was trending there.
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