Quick Luddite Notes

Dafuq: Nvidia bought Hugging Face!

The New York Times: Nvidia Buys Hugging Face in $12.9 Billion Deal.

WTF. Hugging Face said it was privately valued at $4.5 billion in 2023, but I'd have expected Nvidia to pay more like $20 billion!

In other news, in answer to Which Investors Will Get Rich From Anthropic’s IPO?, here's my favorite comment by one wrenhunter, from Connecticut:

Thank goodness that investment riches now go to a dozen people rather than the usual six! I think inequality just ticked down one-millionth of 1%.