Insider recalls pitching Hugging Face to NVIDIA years ago, calls the deal a Christmas gift
JFPuget · x · 2026-09-04
Veteran Kaggle practitioner JFPuget recalls that he and Dieter were the first to pitch Hugging Face to NVIDIA's LLM tooling team years ago — first getting NVIDIA tooling to import HF models, then getting NVIDIA to publish models on HF.
He wasn't involved in the acquisition talks but calls the outcome a Christmas gift that secures both Hugging Face and open-weight AI. A side effect: Ross Wightman and the timm library now land at NVIDIA.
Related event: Kaggle Veteran Recalls Brokering the NVIDIA-Hugging Face Partnership(2 posts)→
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