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IBM’s CEO, who froze hiring for thousands of back-office jobs and predicted A.I. would take up to 50% of new jobs, just piled into a $4.5 billion tech unicorn’s massive new $235 million funding round

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has invested $235 million in the AI startup Hugging Face, which specializes in open-source machine learning models, as part of IBM's push to integrate AI into businesses and automate back-office processes. The funding round also included participation from Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and Salesforce, and valued Hugging Face at $4.5 billion.

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