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NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face

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I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. Over the past decade, Clem, Julien, Thomas and the team at Hu…

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Timeline · 32 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. 2026-09-05 03:19 · r/artificial
    Nvidia acquiring Hugging Face (~$13B), Apple reportedly renting Gemini for Siri, and Anthropic's quiet Sonnet 5 price bump — a roundup of a heavy week
  3. 2026-09-04 17:38 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Nvidia’s $13 billion Hugging Face bet reveals Jensen Huang’s vision for the next AI battleground
  4. 2026-09-04 13:09 · Wall Street Journal Technology
    The ‘Deeply Nerdy’ Founders Behind Nvidia’s $13 Billion Bet on Hugging Face
  5. 2026-09-04 11:52 · r/LocalLLM
    Is hugging face acquisition a threat to the future of open source models?
  6. 2026-09-04 11:31 · CNBC Technology
    Why Nvidia's 'defensive move' to acquire Hugging Face is about much more than chips
  7. 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.
  8. 2026-09-04 01:29 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Nvidia's Hugging Face deal is a bet on open models — and proof it's no longer just a chip company
  9. 2026-09-03 21:34 · France 24 — Artificial Intelligence
    Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion in major AI expansion
  10. 2026-09-03 20:50 · InfoWorld AI
    What Nvidia’s $13B acquisition of Hugging Face means for AI model choice
  11. 2026-09-03 20:25 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Nvidia confirms $12.9B acquisition of AI hosting platform Hugging Face
  12. 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
  13. 2026-09-03 18:16 · r/artificial
    NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
  14. 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'
  15. 2026-09-03 16:59 · The Guardian AI
    Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal
  16. 2026-09-03 16:43 · CNBC Technology
    Hugging Face approached Nvidia’s Huang weeks ahead of $12.9B acquisition, CEO tells CNBC
  17. 2026-09-03 16:32 · BBC Technology
    Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging Face
  18. 2026-09-03 16:24 · TechXplore AI & ML
    Nvidia to spend $13 billion on Hugging Face, which will remain an open source platform
  19. 2026-09-03 16:20 · Mashable AI
    Nvidia’s Hugging Face purchase confirmed at $13 billion
  20. 2026-09-03 15:50 · AI News
    NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B
  21. 2026-09-03 15:28 · The Robot Report
    NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep AI development platform open
  22. 2026-09-03 15:24 · r/StableDiffusion
    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Hugging Face deal: Open models matter greatly to our company
  23. 2026-09-03 13:57 · The Hill Technology
    Nvidia acquires Hugging Face in push for open-source technology
  24. 2026-09-03 13:34 · Ars Technica AI
    Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
  25. 2026-09-03 13:31 · Mint AI
    Nvidia bets big on AI, to acquire Hugging Face in $12.93 billion deal; Jensen Huang says it will remain ‘open platform’
  26. 2026-09-03 13:24 · r/singularity
    NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face
  27. 2026-09-03 13:14 · Semafor Technology
    Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion
  28. 2026-09-03 13:10 · r/LocalLLM
    It's official! Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for 12.9 billion dollars.
  29. 2026-09-03 13:00 · Euronews Next
    Nvidia to buy open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9bn
  30. 2026-09-03 12:49 · r/artificial
    Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B - End of neutral AI?
  31. 2026-09-03 12:22 · r/LocalLLaMA
    It's official! Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for 12.9 billion dollars.
  32. 2026-09-03 11:56 · NVIDIA Blog
    NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face

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