Nvidia Confirms $12.93 Billion Acquisition of Hugging Face, Betting Big on Open-Source AI
After weeks of rumors, Nvidia officially confirmed on September 6 its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. CEO Jensen Huang praised open models for enhancing safety and cybersecurity and accelerating innovation, thanked co-founder Clément Delangue, and pledged the platform will remain open.
Confirmed
- Nvidia acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, officially confirmed after weeks of speculation
- The platform hosts 3 million models, 1 million apps and 500,000 datasets, serving over 18 million developers
- Huang emphasized the value of open models for safety, innovation and broad access, and thanked Clément Delangue
- Nvidia committed to keeping the platform open
Perspectives and Controversy
- @krishnan called Hugging Face the main gateway to open-source AI, with strategic value spanning model discovery, evaluation, optimization and deployment, while warning about neutrality post-acquisition
- Investor Gavin Baker (@Borthwick) argued the deal is highly significant for the US open-source ecosystem, suggested the Poolside deal may matter more, and predicted Huang will push US open-weight models to the frontier, with multi-billion-dollar open model training possibly emerging within 18 months
- @iScienceLuvr and other community users recalled HF's evolution from pytorch-pretrained-bert in 2018 to transformers, diffusers, timm and accelerate, as the news shook the community
Why it matters
Hugging Face is the world's largest open model hosting and distribution platform and the de facto entry point to open-source AI. Nvidia's ownership could push open models to the frontier with more compute and capital, but also reshape the platform's neutral role—how the integration plays out will deeply influence the trajectory of open-source AI.
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Primary sources
- [source] Nvidia's Hugging Face deal may lead to multibillion-dollar open-weight training runs — Borthwick · 2026-09-04
- [source] NVIDIA's $12.93B Hugging Face acquisition puts open-source neutrality in question — krishnan · 2026-09-06
- Hugging Face reportedly acquired by NVIDIA; community reacts — iScienceLuvr · 2026-09-06
- Jensen Huang announces NVIDIA acquisition of Hugging Face, betting big on open models — DeryaTR_ · 2026-09-06
- [source] Nvidia confirms $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, pledging platform stays open — dl_weekly · 2026-09-06