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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9B

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Nvidia has agreed to acquire AI repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to a source. The deal follows talks reported at over $13 billion, with Salesforce among other potential suitors.

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-08-27 02:08 · r/huggingface
    Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, report says
  2. 2026-08-27 01:49 · r/singularity
    Nvidia has been in talks to buy Hugging Face for more than $13 billion
  3. 2026-08-27 01:35 · Techmeme
    Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce (The Information)

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