Hugging Face reportedly acquired by NVIDIA; community reacts
iScienceLuvr · x · 2026-09-06
iScienceLuvr claims NVIDIA has acquired Hugging Face, crediting HF's libraries (transformers, diffusers, timm, accelerate, Gradio) as foundational to open-source AI since the 2018 pytorch-pretrained-bert days; HF co-founder Julien Chaumond responded with emojis. The deal is not yet officially confirmed.
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