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Nvidia acquires Hugging Face in push for open-source technology

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The technology giant Nvidia will acquire the open-source platform Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion as part of the company's push for open artificial intelligence systems. In an announcement Thursday, Nvidia said it will pay $12.93 billion for Hugging Face's platform, which hosts more than 3 mill…

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Timeline · 12 reports

  1. 2026-09-05 10:21 · Mint AI
    'Aim to Empower 100 million AI builders': Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue as Nvidia buys AI startup for $12.93 billion
  2. 2026-09-04 17:38 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Nvidia’s $13 billion Hugging Face bet reveals Jensen Huang’s vision for the next AI battleground
  3. 2026-09-04 13:09 · Wall Street Journal Technology
    The ‘Deeply Nerdy’ Founders Behind Nvidia’s $13 Billion Bet on Hugging Face
  4. 2026-09-04 11:52 · r/LocalLLM
    Is hugging face acquisition a threat to the future of open source models?
  5. 2026-09-04 11:07 · r/LocalLLaMA
    NVIDIA's $12,930,300,000.00 acquisition of Hugging Face contains an easter egg. The first 6 numbers of the acquisition price represent the decimal conversion of Unicode character U+1F917. The 🤗 emoji.
  6. 2026-09-03 21:34 · France 24 — Artificial Intelligence
    Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion in major AI expansion
  7. 2026-09-03 20:50 · InfoWorld AI
    What Nvidia’s $13B acquisition of Hugging Face means for AI model choice
  8. 2026-09-03 20:25 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Nvidia confirms $12.9B acquisition of AI hosting platform Hugging Face
  9. 2026-09-03 19:05 · Tom's Hardware
    Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform
  10. 2026-09-03 17:52 · The New Stack AI
    Hugging Face will remain an open platform : Nvidia strikes $12.9B deal for the GitHub of AI'
  11. 2026-09-03 16:24 · TechXplore AI & ML
    Nvidia to spend $13 billion on Hugging Face, which will remain an open source platform
  12. 2026-09-03 13:57 · The Hill Technology
    Nvidia acquires Hugging Face in push for open-source technology

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