Nvidia acquires Hugging Face in push for open-source technology

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Trending on The Hill - September 3, 2026

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The technology giant Nvidia will acquire the open-source platform Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion as part of the company’s push for open artificial intelligence systems.

In an announcement Thursday, Nvidia said it will pay $12.93 billion for Hugging Face’s platform, which hosts more than 3 million models and 500,000 datasets used by hundreds of thousands of other companies.

“Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a........

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