Why Marvell Stock Rallied Today
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Shares of Marvell Technology ( MRVL +5.89% ) charged sharply higher on Friday, jumping as much as 6.3%. As of 12:47 p.m. ET, the stock was still up 6%. The catalyst that sent the semiconductor and infrastructure specialist higher was news of a notable acquisition by another artificial intelligence (AI) chipmaker. Rumors have swirled over the past week that Nvidia ( NVDA +1.15% ) was in discussions to acquire open-source AI model development platform Hugging Face. The question was put to rest late yesterday when Nvidia confirmed the tie-up. Nvidia agreed to pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, a move some industry watchers are calling defensive. In a blog post to announce the acquisition, Nvidia pointed to Hugging Face's extensive reach among AI developers, noting that the platform has more than 18 million users, 3 million models, 500,000 data sets, and more than 1 million applications and is used by more than 200,000 companies "to discover, evaluate, customize, and deploy AI."
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