NVIDIA to become home for Hugging Face in landmark deal for open AI models

IanAndrewsDC · x · 2026-09-04

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced that Hugging Face will join NVIDIA, with CEO Clement Delangue initiating the deal. Huang argued open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation, and enable sovereignty. Travis Kalanick praised the move as protecting user choice, privacy, and keeping major AI companies honest.

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