NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
firstadopter · x · 2026-09-03
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion.
Key facts:
- Hugging Face hosts 3M+ models, 500K datasets, and 1M applications used by over 18 million developers, with 200,000+ companies using the platform to discover, evaluate, and deploy AI.
- NVIDIA pledged the platform will stay open: developers keep free choice of models, frameworks, clouds, and inference providers — NVIDIA compute will not be required.
- Hugging Face will continue supporting open source and open weight models across the ecosystem, with multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment.
- Huang also cited the recent open letter he coauthored on the importance of open weights to the AI economy.
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