NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B, promises to keep it open
jedisct1 · x · 2026-09-03
NVIDIA officially announced it will acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, in a post authored by Jensen Huang.
Key facts:
- Hugging Face serves 18M+ developers hosting 3M models, 500K datasets, and 1M apps, used by 200K+ companies.
- Huang commits that Hugging Face stays an open platform: developers choose their own models, frameworks, clouds, and inference providers; NVIDIA compute will not be required. Open-weight models and multi-cloud, multi-accelerator deployment remain supported.
- He cites a recent open letter he coauthored arguing open weights broaden AI access and let organizations build without training from scratch.
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