27 August 2026

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

First reported

Ars Technica and SiliconANGLE ran this on , all on the same day.

  • Nvidia acquired Hugging Face, a platform hosting 3 million AI models used by 18 million developers, for approximately $12.9 billion.
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated the platform will remain open to all cloud providers and chip makers, not favoring Nvidia hardware.

Where they differ

Reported by SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, InfoWorld, CNBC