Nvidia agreed on September 3 to acquire Hugging Face, one of the most widely used hubs for open models. Nvidia says the aim is to protect open-source AI developers. The dominant GPU vendor will now also own one of the main places open models are published. For the person using those models, little changes. With every inference-as-a-service player today, you still cannot check the proof for: → Which model answered a request → Who could read your prompt → What happens to your data You trust whoever sits in the middle. Open models only stay open if anyone can verify how they run, whoever owns the hub. That takes an execution layer with no owner, where the network checks which model ran and keeps the data private.