Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
On September 3, NVIDIA officially announced its $12.93 billion acquisition of open-source AI platform Hugging Face. CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the deal in an official blog post, saying open models can strengthen safety and accelerate the spread of innovation. Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue also officially announced the acquisition intent, saying that a decade after founding the company, open-source AI has reached an inflection point, and the community has proven open source can complement or even replace closed APIs.
Confirmed
- The deal is valued at $12.93 billion, announced by Huang on the NVIDIA official blog (relayed by @ngxson, @firstadopter)
- Hugging Face currently hosts 18M+ developers, 3M+ models, 500K datasets, and 1M apps (relayed by @firstadopter, @vanstriendaniel)
- Hugging Face, built by Clem, Julien, Thomas and others, has become the core platform for the open-model developer community (relayed by @ngxson)
- The acquisition intent was officially announced by Clément Delangue himself in a statement (relayed by @vanstriendaniel)
Why it matters
- This is one of NVIDIA's largest-ever moves into the open-source AI ecosystem, bringing the largest open-model community under its wing and potentially reshaping the open vs. closed AI competitive landscape
- Delangue's claim that "open source can complement or even replace closed APIs" is now backed by an acquisition, signaling strong compute-giant support for the open-source route—and likely sparking debate over the platform's independence
- If the deal closes, NVIDIA will control both the developer-ecosystem gateway and the model/dataset hosting infrastructure, affecting the toolchain choices of millions of downstream developers
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Primary sources
- NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion — ngxson ·
- NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion — firstadopter ·
- Hugging Face co-founder confirms Nvidia acquisition with $12.93B easter egg — Thom_Wolf ·
- NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B, Pledging Platform Stays Open — vanstriendaniel · 2026-09-03
- Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.93 billion — xiaohu · 2026-09-03
- [source] Hugging Face co-founder confirms Nvidia acquisition with $12.93B easter egg — Thom_Wolf · 2026-09-03
- Why NVIDIA-Hugging Face deal may be the best outcome for open-source AI — Thom_Wolf · 2026-09-03
- Hugging Face cofounder reflects on 2016 origins as NVIDIA deal lands — deliprao · 2026-09-03
- Nvidia acquires Hugging Face to fuel a scaled American open-source AI ecosystem — Borthwick · 2026-09-03
- Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion — SarcasticBaka · 2026-09-03
- Hugging Face confirms major NVIDIA deal, early investor congratulates the team — graceisford · 2026-09-03
- Nvidia reportedly acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93B, unverified — Polymarket · 2026-09-03
- Nathan Lambert's Call for NVIDIA to Buy Hugging Face Aged Perfectly — menhguin · 2026-09-03
- Hugging Face Co-founder Thom Wolf Reflects on the Journey to NVIDIA's $12.93B Deal — helloiamleonie · 2026-09-03
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