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The company said Wednesday that it has $18 billion committed to equity investments for the rest of its fiscal year, on top of $47.9 billion it already holds in private companies. Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but the person familiar and a second person said talks are not ongoing.    Nvidia already has a relationship with Hugging Face. The chipmaker participated in its $235 million funding round in 2023 that valued it at $4.5 billion. Hugging Face turned down a $500 million investment offer from Nvidia late last year that would have valued it at $7 billion, the Financial Times previously (https://www.ft.com/content/d14419c5-7fa5-4128-9858-7f83259ca02e?syn-25a6b1a6=1) reported . Hugging Face said at the time it did not want a dominant investor that could sway decisions.    Hugging Face sits at the center of the open-source AI ecosystem, hosting millions of AI models and datasets that developers can build on. 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