NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face for $12.93B, vows to keep the platform open and neutral
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-03
NVIDIA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000.
- Scale: Hugging Face hosts 18M+ developers, 3M+ models, 500K datasets and 1M applications, used by 200K+ companies.
- Commitments: The platform stays open, neutral and platform-agnostic — developers keep free choice of models, frameworks, clouds and inference providers, and NVIDIA compute will not be required.
- Rationale: Jensen Huang cites an open-weights open letter, arguing open models broaden AI access and distribute AI leadership across startups, universities and institutions.
- Plan: NVIDIA will scale HF's platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI worldwide.
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