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Nvidia's reported $12.9B deal for Hugging Face puts optimum-neuron, optimum-habana, optimum-intel and optimum-amd — the Transformers bridge for every rival accelerator — inside Nvidia. optimum-tpu was archived read-only in January, and its own README points the exit at vLLM.
August 27, 2026 · 10 min read
Groq certified as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner on August 12 and closed a $350M down round on August 17 with Nvidia planning to participate. If your capacity plan lists Groq as the non-Nvidia leg, that row no longer exists — and the API was built so you would never notice.
August 18, 2026 · 10 min read