NVIDIA Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, Folding the Top Open-Model Platform Into Its AI Stack
thione · x · 2026-09-07
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, bringing the leading open-model platform into its AI ecosystem. The deal puts the compute giant in direct control of the open-source community's central distribution hub, with major implications for the open AI ecosystem.
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