Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face in a $12.9 billion deal and says the platform will stay open despite Nvidia control. The announcement includes a projected closing date in the first half of 2027. As part of the acquisition, Nvidia promises Hugging Face will remain compute-agnostic and continue supporting multiple clouds and accelerators so developers can deploy open models without requiring Nvidia compute.
Nvidia agreed to buy AI platform Hugging Face in a bid to expand from AI chips into software. The deal is valued at about $12.9bn (£9.5bn). Nvidia will pay about $11.9bn to Hugging Face investors and offer up to $1bn in stock incentives, while saying Hugging Face will remain open and not force users onto Nvidia chips or services.
Nvidia confirmed its plan to buy Hugging Face, the open-source AI model repository, for $12.93bn. The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2027. Nvidia says it will scale the Hugging Face platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and expand access to AI for developers and institutions.
Nvidia agreed to buy AI model platform Hugging Face for $13 billion. The deal price is $13 billion. The acquisition shifts Hugging Face’s ownership under Nvidia, aiming to accelerate the spread of open-weight models.
Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face to expand the infrastructure behind the open-model platform. Nvidia will pay $12,930,300,000. Hugging Face will remain open, keep its team and brand, and NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through it, though the deal still needs formal completion and may face antitrust scrutiny.
Factorial acquired the Berlin AI startup Empion and brought its team and leadership into Factorial’s German operations. The acquisition was valued alongside Factorial’s recent Series D at $2.5 billion, but the purchase price for Empion was not disclosed. Over time, Empion’s AI talent-assessment technology will be fully folded into the Factorial platform, with existing Empion customers seeing no immediate contract changes.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, bringing the open-source model and dataset hosting platform under the ownership of the AI chipmaker. The deal price is $12.93 billion. Hugging Face will shift from independent ownership to being part of Nvidia, changing its platform ownership and likely its investment priorities for AI tooling and hosting infrastructure.
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