NVIDIA announces $12.93B acquisition of Hugging Face in push beyond compute
APPSO · wechat · 2026-09-03
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced an agreement to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion, with Hugging Face joining NVIDIA post-close.
Key numbers
- Over 18 million developers, researchers, and creators on the platform
- More than 3 million models, 500K datasets, and 1 million apps hosted
- 200K+ companies use Hugging Face to find and deploy models
Openness commitments
NVIDIA stresses Hugging Face will remain an open platform: developers keep free choice of models, frameworks, clouds, and inference providers, with no requirement to use NVIDIA GPUs. The platform will continue supporting third-party open-weight models and multi-cloud, multi-accelerator environments. NVIDIA claims to already be one of the platform's largest contributors with 500+ models and 250+ open datasets.
Strategic intent
The deal marks NVIDIA's expansion from compute supplier to a full-stack AI platform spanning models, tooling, and developers. Balancing commercial interests with the open-source ethos is the biggest challenge ahead. Note: verify against official sources, as the post links to an official blog.
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