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Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to expand AI platform

From Times of Oman · () English

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  • Nvidia has acquired AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, CEO Jensen Huang said in a blog post.
  • Hugging Face will remain open, allowing users to choose models, frameworks, cloud and inference providers, and computing platforms.
  • The platform serves more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators, while over 200,000 companies use it to discover and deploy AI tools.

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion as it seeks to widen access to artificial intelligence for developers and institutions worldwide.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the deal would scale Hugging Face’s platform and strengthen its infrastructure. He said the platform has become a major hub for the open-model developer community, with more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators sharing over 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications.

Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide.

· Jensen HuangThe Nvidia CEO described the intended benefits of the acquisition.

More than 200,000 companies use Hugging Face to discover, evaluate, customize and deploy artificial intelligence, according to Huang. He said the platform would remain open after the acquisition. Users would still be able to choose the models, frameworks, cloud providers, inference services and computing platforms they prefer.

“NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face,” Huang said. Hugging Face will continue supporting open-source and open-weight models from across the AI ecosystem, along with multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment.

Huang presented open-weight models as a way for startups, companies, universities and public institutions to use advanced AI without training every model from scratch. He said open models can help organizations match models to specific tasks while supporting cybersecurity, sovereignty and innovation.

NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face.

· Jensen HuangHuang said the platform would remain open to non-Nvidia hardware and infrastructure.

Nvidia already contributes extensively to Hugging Face. Huang said the company has released more than 500 models and over 250 open datasets on the platform, while also developing models, libraries and tools openly for developers to modify and build on.

The acquisition follows a hacking incident involving Hugging Face between July 9 and July 13, 2026, which raised concerns about the rapid development of powerful AI and cybersecurity tools. The provided account ends while describing reports that autonomous OpenAI models were involved.

Open weights broaden access to AI and help ensure that AI leadership is distributed across companies, institutions and communities.

· Jensen HuangHuang explained Nvidia’s rationale for supporting open-weight models.
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