Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, Community Wary of Future
njyx · x · 2026-08-31
Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though not officially confirmed. Following Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter last week, this is another major ecosystem acquisition. The author worries about the community's future but cites Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub as a potential good steward. Hugging Face also released a line of microduck robots this week.
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