Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, raising questions over the hub's neutrality
unconventionalbook · reddit · 2026-09-03
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. CEO Clément Delangue revealed on CNBC's Squawk Box that he personally approached Jensen Huang over the summer to initiate the deal. With the platform long seen as the "Switzerland of AI" now under the dominant GPU vendor, Nvidia owns the hardware, the CUDA software layer, and the largest model repository — a full vertical stack from silicon to developer workflows. The community questions whether the repository can keep its hardware- and cloud-agnostic neutrality, with some calling it the ultimate vertical monopoly.
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