Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $13B, as creators lament there was never a way to monetize
QuixiAI · x · 2026-09-04
Per Fortune, Nvidia is acquiring open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $13 billion — a journey from a 'scrappy' startup named after an emoji to the de facto hub of open models. Dolphin creator QuixiAI laments HF never built monetization for creators: "If I got a dollar for every download... I'd be rich." Same-day context: OpenAI debuted GPT-6 Astra, Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, and ChatGPT suffered its second outage in three days alongside Claude and Grok.
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