US DOJ is inquiring about Nvidia's purchase of Hugging Face, sources say

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The US Department of Justice has made inquiries about how Nvidia’s $12.93 billion deal to buy open-source platform Hugging Face would ​affect competition in artificial intelligence, at the same time as antitrust enforcers pursue their years-long investigation into the chip designer's conduct, two people familiar with the matter said.