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Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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Ari Levy / CNBC : Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as the chipmaker moves beyond hardw…

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-09-03 13:47 · Wall Street Journal Technology
    Nvidia Agrees to Buy AI Platform Hugging Face for $13 Billion
  2. 2026-09-03 12:18 · Engadget
    NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
  3. 2026-09-03 12:09 · Techmeme
    Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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