NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B, Pledging Platform Stays Open
vanstriendaniel · x · 2026-09-03
NVIDIA has officially announced it will acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, confirmed by Jensen Huang in a blog post celebrating open models' role in safety, innovation, and AI diffusion.
Key facts:
- Hugging Face currently hosts 18M+ developers, 3M+ models, 500K datasets, and 1M applications, used by over 200,000 companies.
- NVIDIA pledges the platform remains open: developers keep free choice of models, frameworks, clouds, and inference providers — NVIDIA compute will not be required.
- Hugging Face will continue supporting open-weight models from every builder, with multi-cloud and multi-accelerator deployment.
- Huang cites a recent open letter co-signed by industry leaders on the importance of open weights to the AI economy.
The deal puts the largest open AI community under a chip giant's ownership, raising questions about platform neutrality going forward.
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