Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging Face
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The deal gives Nvidia control of a leading open-source AI platform and developer community.
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Timeline · 11 reports
- 2026-09-05 10:21 · Mint AI
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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. - 2026-09-03 21:34 · France 24 — Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion in major AI expansion - 2026-09-03 20:50 · InfoWorld AI
What Nvidia’s $13B acquisition of Hugging Face means for AI model choice - 2026-09-03 20:25 · SiliconANGLE AI
Nvidia confirms $12.9B acquisition of AI hosting platform Hugging Face - 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 - 2026-09-03 18:16 · r/artificial
NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion - 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' - 2026-09-03 16:59 · The Guardian AI
Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal - 2026-09-03 16:32 · BBC Technology
Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging Face