Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion
Acquisition Provisional 78% confidence first seen
Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy the open-model hosting and deployment platform Hugging Face for approximately $12.9 billion, reversing an earlier decision to pass on a smaller $500 million offer. The reported deal would place Hugging Face’s infrastructure and defaults under Nvidia control, raising questions about how integration and model hosting choices could be influenced for developers using rival hardware.