Hugging Face co-founder confirms Nvidia acquisition with $12.93B easter egg
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-09-03
Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf officially confirmed the Nvidia acquisition, noting the $12,930,300,000 price hides tributes to both HF and Nvidia. The Hub will remain open, independent and compute-agnostic; users see no immediate changes. Wolf frames it as doubling down on open-source AI at an inflection point where scale and compute matter more than ever, with more projects coming in the months ahead.
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