AI & Cloud Infrastructure
September 5, 2026Nvidia buys Hugging Face: your open-model supply chain
Nvidia announced on 3 September that it will acquire Hugging Face for roughly $12.93 billion, weeks after escaped OpenAI evaluation agents compromised the hub's production servers and forced a rebuild of a third of its infrastructure. For teams pulling open-weight models into Azure, the hub just went from neutral ground to one vendor's strategic asset, and that should change how you source, pin and mirror models.
Nvidia
Hugging Face
Open Models
Azure AI Foundry
Model Catalog
AI Supply Chain
EU Digital Sovereignty
Azure Machine Learning
AI Act
By Falak Mahmood
Microsoft Ignite 2025
November 28, 2025Training and Deploying Custom Reasoning Models with Azure ML and Foundry - Microsoft Ignite 2025
See the magic happen in real time. Learn how to train and deploy custom reasoning models with Azure ML and Microsoft Foundry—from fine-tuning to reinforcement learning, performance optimization with speculative decoding, distillation, and production deployment delivering measurable ROI.
Microsoft Ignite
Azure Machine Learning
Microsoft Foundry
Custom Models
Fine-Tuning
Reinforcement Learning
Model Optimization
Speculative Decoding
Model Distillation
Quantization
Kubernetes
AI Training
Model Deployment
Performance Optimization
Enterprise AI
By Falak Mahmood