GoKawiilNvidia reportedly nearing $12.9B deal to acquire Hugging Face
According to The Information, Nvidia has agreed to acquire AI model-sharing platform Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, though Business Insider says talks are still ongoing without a signed deal. Neither company has confirmed the reports publicly. The price would make it Nvidia's largest acquisition ever, well above the $7 billion it paid for Mellanox in 2020.
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Hugging Face functions as a central repository for open AI models and datasets, used by millions of developers and multiple chipmakers including AMD and Intel. Nvidia owning that hub raises concerns about neutrality, since rivals depend on Hugging Face as a supposedly vendor-agnostic platform, and Nvidia already dominates AI chip supply.
- Reported $12.9B price would be Nvidia's largest acquisition, topping Mellanox's $7B deal
- Hugging Face has 13M users, 2M+ models, and 500K+ datasets as of 2025
- Deal could raise neutrality concerns since Hugging Face also partners with AMD, Google, and AWS
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