OpenAI offered $100M to Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B deal

Before Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for roughly $13 billion, OpenAI offered to invest about $100 million in the platform, which would have served as a distribution channel for OpenAI's Jalapeño chips. AMD and Salesforce also showed interest, but talks with OpenAI fell apart early.

• Nvidia announced the ~$13 billion Hugging Face acquisition on Sept. 3
• OpenAI offered ~$100 million after its agents hacked the platform in July
• Hugging Face would have distributed OpenAI's Jalapeño chips made with Broadcom
• AMD and Salesforce also held talks with Hugging Face