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Kevin Durant’s Early Hugging Face Bet Could Be Worth Over $60 Million After Nvidia Deal

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Kevin Durant’s connection with Hugging Face began well before the company became closely associated with open-source artificial intelligence. The basketball star reportedly invested $100,000 in Hugging Face during its 2018 seed round and followed that with another $150,000 during the…

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