Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
NVIDIA acquired Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000
The math: 0x1F917 = 1×65536 + 15×4096 + 9×256 + 1×16 + 7 = 129,303. And U+1F917 is officially named HUGGING FACE — .
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548952
ha! considering their founder(s) wished for their company to become the first listed on stock exchange with an emoji identifier, that’s nice
Huh, it's true (well, technically the price was 100,000 hugging faces); good catch