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With HuggingFace, Nvidia is also acquiring llama.cpp and the team behind it

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With this move Nvidia is not only acquiring the HuggingFace platform, but they might also effectively acquire the copyright to the llama.cpp project, together with the entire team behind it. In February 2026 the llama.cpp team was employed by HF in order to continue working on llama.cpp and the ggm…

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  1. 2026-08-27 18:20 · r/LocalLLaMA
    With HuggingFace, Nvidia is also acquiring llama.cpp and the team behind it

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