Podcast claims NVIDIA buying Hugging Face for $12.9B, traces its open-source rise
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-09-03
The Turing Post released an episode claiming NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion (unverified, treat with caution). It traces NVIDIA's arc from Linux hostility (Linus Torvalds' middle finger) through NV1 and CUDA to becoming one of the largest open-source AI contributors, and how Jensen Huang became the "King of Open AI" by making open source highly profitable.
Related event: NVIDIA Officially Acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion(93 posts)→
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