Jensen Huang announces NVIDIA acquisition of Hugging Face, betting big on open models
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-09-06
NVIDIA reportedly announced an acquisition of Hugging Face. Jensen Huang wrote that open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and let every developer, startup, university, industry and country build with AI, thanking Clement Delangue for approaching him. The retweeter sees it as NVIDIA going all-in on open-source AI models. Deal details undisclosed; treat as unconfirmed until official announcement.
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