NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B — a Price Tag Coded in the 🤗 Emoji
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-09-04
Hugging Face has announced its intent to join forces with NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition, ten years after the company was founded. CEO Clement Delangue says open-source AI is at an inflection point: the community has proven it can complement — even replace — closed-source APIs, but scaling it requires more compute, support and visibility, which Jensen Huang offered to provide.
Key details:
- The price is a deliberate Easter egg: the 🤗 emoji's Unicode code point U+1F917 converts from hex to 129,303 — a price tag spelling out both companies.
- NVIDIA commits to strongly supporting Hugging Face, building on what Delangue called its status as the "King of American open-source AI."
- The deal marks a landmark deepening of ties between the open-source AI ecosystem and the dominant compute vendor.
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