NVIDIA buys Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000 — and the price hides two easter eggs
rseroter · x · 2026-09-04
Hugging Face announced its intention to join NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition. ClementDelangue says open-source AI is at an inflection point and needs more compute and support to scale as an alternative to closed APIs. Netizens spotted two easter eggs: 129303 is the Unicode code point for the 🤗 emoji (U+1F917), and #129303 as a hex color is nearly Nvidia green.
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