Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B

marlene_zw · x · 2026-08-27

Nvidia has agreed to acquire open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to reports from TechCrunch and The Information. The move would secure Nvidia's dominance in AI chips and leverage Hugging Face's developer community to boost its cloud ambitions. A formal agreement has not yet been signed, and neither company has commented.

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