#NvidiaHuggingFaceDeal

Nvidia buying Hugging Face for $12.9B is less about the models than the distribution. HF is where 18M+ developers already build, so owning that layer makes Nvidia's stack the default on-ramp to AI. They have promised to keep it open and multi-accelerator, which is the whole question: an open hub owned by the dominant chipmaker stays neutral only as long as that neutrality remains useful. 🤝 Just my read, not advice. #NvidiaHuggingFaceDeal

NVIDIA ACQUIRES HUGGING FACE FOR $12.9B. Jensen on the value of open source models: "I recommended that people use closed models as much as they can because they are developing rapidly. We use Claude, Codex, Perplexity, and Cursor at Nvidia. However, there are so many companies that have domain expertise, companies that have sovereignty reasons, they do their own research, those companies need to have control and ownership over their own intellectual proprietary. Open sourced models have become sufficiently good to allow companies to build their own AI."

Nvidia to buy open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $13bn

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#NvidiaHuggingFaceDeal Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion, bringing one of the world’s most influential open AI communities into the leading AI-chip company. Hugging Face provides access to more than three million models, hundreds of thousands of datasets, and a large developer ecosystem. Nvidia says the platform will remain open and developers will not be required to use Nvidia computing products. Strategically, the deal expands Nvidia’s position beyond hardware and deeper into the software, model-distribution, and developer layers of artificial intelligence. The opportunity is significant: combining Nvidia’s infrastructure with Hugging Face’s community could simplify AI development and accelerate deployment. The main concern is neutrality. Hugging Face became valuable partly because developers viewed it as an open hub supporting many frameworks and hardware providers. Nvidia must preserve that trust while integrating the business. Regulators may also examine whether the acquisition gives Nvidia excessive influence over the full AI stack.

Nvidia buying Hugging Face for $12.9B is less about the models than the distribution. HF is where 18M+ developers already build, so owning that layer makes Nvidia's stack the default on-ramp to AI. They have promised to keep it open and multi-accelerator, which is the whole question: an open hub owned by the dominant chipmaker stays neutral only as long as that neutrality remains useful. 🤝 Just my read, not advice. #NvidiaHuggingFaceDeal

Nvidia just made a $12.9 billion bet on open-source AI

BREAKING: Nvidia just made its biggest acquisition ever buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. Hugging Face is known as the "GitHub of AI." It only makes about $150 million a year in revenue, so Nvidia is paying about 86 times that just to own it. CEO Jensen Huang says Hugging Face will stay open, and using it won't require Nvidia chips. But Anthropic and OpenAI are both building their own chips right now to depend less on Nvidia. Buying Hugging Face gives Nvidia a foothold in the open source AI world that isn't tied to those companies. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027, pending regulatory approval.