Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.9B, pledges to keep it open
NerdyRodent · x · 2026-09-03
The Register reports Nvidia confirmed a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, expected to close in H1 2027 pending regulatory approval. Owning a main hub for discovering and distributing open models brings Nvidia closer to workloads on its GPUs; Nvidia pledged the platform stays open, with free choice of models, frameworks, clouds and accelerators — Nvidia compute not required.
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