NVIDIA reportedly buying Hugging Face for $12.9B; ZipNN research cuts model storage ~20%
LChoshen · x · 2026-09-09
moshik11 claims NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.9 billion (unofficial). His team's ZipNN research helps Hugging Face store AI models with 20% less space — significant at petabyte scale. The deal, if confirmed, would mark a landmark shift in open-source AI infrastructure.
Related event: Rumored Nvidia acquisition of Hugging Face sparks debate(2 posts)→
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