Ep 744: Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face Bet — Aug 29

Nvidia is reportedly paying eighty times revenue for Hugging Face, a defensive move to keep open-weight models tied to CUDA as OpenAI builds its own inference chips. Elsewhere: Waymo takes a swipe at Tesla's camera-only bet, and Anthropic has Claude running physical lab experiments. Source episodes: - How to Use Claude's New Browser for Real Work (The AI Advantage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yshSzI1rAMs - AI News: OpenAI Made a Massive Move Against NVIDIA (Matt Wolfe) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TInwQglNkzo - I Built a FREE App That Runs Your Entire Business (Matt Wolfe) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKo9iLGjUbs - The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse (The Vergecast) https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP8427141698.mp3 - Intelligence EXPLOSION: Harness Engineering with Pi Agent, Deepseek, and Gemini (IndyDevDan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqZHR-hRllI - The Most Useful New AI Features and Tools to Try (The AI Daily Brief) https://anchor.fm/s/f7cac464/podcast/play/124879421/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-28%2F430741770-44100-2-6d1d325ee13a9.mp3 - AI models can now help run physical science experiments (Anthropic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1zBiAQU1IA

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