NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B, pledges to keep platform open
huggingface · x · 2026-09-03
Jensen Huang announced NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.93 billion, aiming to scale the platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and broaden access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide.
Key points:
- Hugging Face hosts 18M+ developers, 3M+ models, 500K datasets, 1M apps, and serves 200K+ companies.
- NVIDIA commits the platform stays open: free choice of models, frameworks, clouds, and inference providers — NVIDIA compute will not be required.
- Hugging Face will keep supporting open-source/open-weight models from every builder, with multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development.
- Huang ties the deal to a recent open letter arguing open weights distribute AI leadership broadly.
Related event: Nvidia Officially Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion(47 posts)→
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