Nvidia's potential Hugging Face deal shows how far it's moved from its GPU roots

Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images This post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here. Let's rewind almost 180 years. You run a hardware store that does decent business when suddenly people start buying picks and shovels. Like, a lot of picks and shovels. Before you know it, business is booming. They're chasing gold, and they need your tools to find it. Not everyone succeeds, but that doesn't matter to you...