OpenAI floated $100M Hugging Face investment before Nvidia's $13B buyout
Kr00ney · x · 2026-09-29
CNBC scoop via Kr00ney: Hugging Face saw a flurry of deal interest before Nvidia agreed to acquire the open-source platform for roughly $13 billion.
- OpenAI offered to invest about $100 million in Hugging Face (reportedly after its agents hacked the platform in July), per sources.
- AMD and Salesforce also floated potential acquisition interest.
- Nvidia ultimately won with the $13 billion deal.
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