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NVIDIA agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion

September 3, 2026 · High importance · markets

NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Hugging Face will remain an open platform supporting open-source and open-weight models from any builder, multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development, without requiring NVIDIA compute. The platform hosts more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications used by over 18 million developers and 200,000 companies.

Date
September 3, 2026
Importance
High 5/5
Category
markets
Axis of Change
Capital Concentration
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NVIDIA Hugging Face
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