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Three deals in weeks pull the open-weight distribution layer inside vendor stacks
Nvidia is reported to be paying $13bn for Hugging Face weeks after $6bn for Poolside, and Stripe took OpenRouter for more than $7bn, so the registry and the router that operators build on now answer to owners selling chips and payments.
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