# Nvidia’s Hugging Face Deal Highlights the Dangers of Open-Weight Models

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> Published: 2026-09-14 00:00:00+00:00

This week on The Spillover, Sebastian Mallaby and Rebecca Patterson dissect Nvidia’s nearly $13 billion deal to buy the leading open-weight AI platform, Hugging Face, and what the acquisition could mean for the future of AI safety. As Mallaby puts it: “We’re not up against the Terminator. We’re up against an AI swarm.” The price […]