Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face for $12.93B with Emoji Easter Egg
Nvidia announced its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, with the deal amount encoding the Unicode codepoint of the 🤗 emoji. Netizens joked that Nvidia essentially 'bought an emoji' that used to be free.
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- Joke of the day: Nvidia 'bought an emoji' and it could have used 🤗 for free — tekbog · 2026-09-03
- NVIDIA's $12.93B Hugging Face acquisition hides a 🤗 emoji easter egg — yuwen_lu_ · 2026-09-04