NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face, reshaping the open-source AI ecosystem
aspublic · reddit · 2026-09-07
NVIDIA announced in an official blog post that it will acquire Hugging Face, the world's largest hub for open-source models and datasets. The deal binds the AI infrastructure giant to the central hub of the open-source community, with major implications for model distribution, the open ecosystem, and industry competition.
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