Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source AI Platform Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion
What's happening
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion (reports cite ~ $13 billion in some outlets). The deal would put the company that hosts many open-weight models under the same roof as the top GPU maker, reversing an earlier move when Hugging Face rejected a roughly $7 billion Nvidia approach last year. Coverage frames the acquisition as a way for Nvidia to both protect its chip business and reenter the cloud market, while observers note the implications for open-source model infrastructure and community stewardship.
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This is rising now because multiple outlets report a completed Nvidia-Hugging Face agreement at a roughly $13B valuation after talks and a prior $7B approach last year.
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If Nvidia now owns the 'GitHub of AI models,' open-source AI just traded independence for a GPU vendor's guardrails, and that could be the best outcome yet.
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- Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.
Ars Technica AIAug 27 - Goodbye HuggingFace - bought by Nvidiar/artificialAug 27
- Hugging Face turned down a $7B Nvidia offer last year. The reported price now is $12.9B, and the reason isn't the chips.
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, per The Information (unconfirmed by either company so far). Less than a year ago, Hugging Face turned down a roughly $7 billion Nvidia investment offer. That's close to a doubling in under a year, which is a strange trajectory for a company whose product is mostly a website where people upload model weights. Here's why this
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