NVIDIA buying Hugging Face for $12.9B quietly rewired open AI's power structure
Dapper-Tale-4021 · reddit · 2026-09-01
The author weaves together three stories pointing the same direction:
- NVIDIA reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B. HF was where developers went to escape vendor lock-in; now the company making the chips behind every major AI system owns that platform. NVIDIA's developer track record is decent, but the architecture of the open AI ecosystem just changed.
- ChatGPT launched ads across 31 European countries, free and Go tiers only. OpenAI says ads don't influence answers, but Altman called advertising a "last resort" in 2024 — it's now the strategy in 40 countries.
- A McKinsey figure: 32% of companies skipped a software purchase this year because an AI agent built the solution internally, a direct hit to SaaS pipelines.
Which one actually changes how your organization operates?
Related event: Nvidia Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for Around $12.9 Billion(7 posts)→
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