Nvidia's $12.9303B Hugging Face deal price hides an emoji and Nvidia Easter eggs
joeddav · x · 2026-09-04
- When Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf announced the $12,930,300,000 acquisition by Nvidia, he teased that the price contained hidden references.
- HF egg: 129,303 is the decimal form of Unicode code point U+1F917 — the 🤗 "Hugging Face" emoji. Commenters cracked it quickly, and Wolf confirmed there was a second, Nvidia-related meaning.
- Nvidia egg: splitting the number into 12 / 93 / 03 yields Nvidia's founding year 1993, its $12 IPO price from 1999 (the stock now trades above $200), and its three founders: Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem.
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