GoKawiilNvidia to buy Hugging Face in $12.93 billion deal
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the widely used open AI model distribution platform, for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face will keep its brand and remain open to third-party models, clouds, and hardware, according to Nvidia.
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The deal gives Nvidia influence over a hub used by more than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies to find and deploy AI models, extending its reach beyond chips into the software layer where developers choose and build with AI. While Nvidia pledges not to lock the platform into its own hardware, owning such a central distribution point could still steer usage patterns toward Nvidia's ecosystem over time.
- Nvidia is paying $12.93 billion for Hugging Face, a leading open-model platform.
- Hugging Face will keep its brand and stay open to other clouds and hardware providers.
- The acquisition extends Nvidia's influence from hardware into AI model distribution and development tools.
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