NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, betting on open-source AI at scale
erhannah · x · 2026-09-04
Hugging Face founder Clement Delangue announced the intention to join forces with NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition. He argues open-source AI is at an inflection point and needs more compute, support and visibility to scale. Ethics lead Margaret Mitchell confirmed the move, citing HF's founding values of openness and shared access.
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