Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion, pledging the 3-million-model open platform will remain open to its 18 million developers.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the model and dataset hosting platform, for $13 billion, pending regulatory review. The platform hosts about 3 million primarily open AI models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million AI applications, used by more than 200,000 companies and 18 million developers. Nvidia pledged Hugging Face will remain an open platform and keep its brand; the startup previously declined a $500 million Nvidia investment to avoid a dominant investor. The deal supports Nvidia's open-weights strategy, alongside backing for Reflection AI, CoreWeave, and Nebius.
- Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $13 billion, subject to regulatory review
- Platform hosts 3M open models, 500K datasets, 1M AI apps; 200K companies use it
- Nvidia pledges Hugging Face remains open and keeps its brand
- Deal deepens Nvidia's open-weights ecosystem push alongside CoreWeave and Nebius
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Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
By Michael Acton, Financial Times · arstechnica.com
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