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Nvidia confirms $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-06

Nvidia confirmed it will buy Hugging Face, the central repository for open AI models, and says the platform will stay open under new ownership. The deal concentrates a key open-model hub under a chipmaker already central to AI compute.

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