NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B, pledges to keep the platform open
ns123abc · x · 2026-09-03
Jensen Huang announced on the NVIDIA blog that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, aiming to scale the platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and expand access to AI worldwide.
Key points:
- Hugging Face serves 18M+ developers, researchers, and creators, hosting 3M+ models, 500K datasets, and 1M apps; 200K+ companies use it.
- Huang pledges the platform stays open: developers choose models, frameworks, clouds, and inference providers — NVIDIA compute is not required.
- Hugging Face will keep supporting open/open-weight models from every builder, with multi-cloud and multi-accelerator deployment.
- Huang cites his recent open letter on open weights, arguing open models let startups, universities, and institutions build on advanced capabilities without training from scratch.
The largest acquisition ever in the open-source AI community.
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