NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion, Delangue Says

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Key Info

Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue announced an intention to be acquired by NVIDIA in a deal valued at approximately $12.93 billion, saying open-source AI needs more compute, support, collaboration and visibility to scale.

Highlights

  • The acquisition pairs Hugging Face's open-source AI community with NVIDIA's hardware and AI infrastructure.
  • Delangue says the deal will help open-source AI become a complement, or even an alternative, to closed-source APIs at a larger scale.
  • NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang also welcomed the move, highlighting open models' role in safety, innovation and digital sovereignty.
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