NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
firstadopter · x · 2026-09-03
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced NVIDIA's agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, linking to the full official blog post.
Key points:
- Hugging Face hosts 3M+ models, 500K datasets, and 1M apps for 18M+ developers and 200K+ companies.
- NVIDIA committed to keeping the platform open: no mandatory NVIDIA compute, continued multi-cloud and multi-accelerator deployment, and continued support for open weight models across the ecosystem.
- Huang cited the coauthored open letter on the importance of open weights to broadening access to AI.
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