NVIDIA Confirms $12.9 Billion Acquisition of Hugging Face
NVIDIA, the largest publisher of open models and datasets on Hugging Face, now owns the platform, and both companies have publicly committed to keeping it open and independent of NVIDIA's own compute.
Reporting from 2 sources: ASCII.jp, GIGAZINE.
NVIDIA formally announced on September 3, 2026 that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.9303 billion, about 2 trillion yen. Hugging Face, the platform called the AI version of GitHub, hosts AI models and code and runs services like ZeroGPU. Reports of the deal first surfaced August 26. Both CEOs publicly committed to keeping the platform open and independent of NVIDIA's compute resources.
NVIDIA said developers will keep the freedom to choose models, frameworks, cloud providers, and inference services, and that its own computing is not required to develop or deploy on Hugging Face. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said NVIDIA promised to support the company's mission, and that the platform will keep its openness and independence, will not depend on NVIDIA compute resources, and that founders and the full team will remain.
Jensen Huang framed the deal around open models, saying they benefit safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and adoption, and enable sovereignty. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he looks forward to growing the open model ecosystem with NVIDIA and Hugging Face, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai noted Google is an investor in Hugging Face and will remain a partner.
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