Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face, a hub for open-source AI models, after more than a week of rumors. The deal is valued at about $12.9 billion. The acquisition is expected to strengthen Nvidia’s position in the open-model ecosystem—while AI security firms like CrowdStrike step up AI-focused defenses for the growing model supply.
OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra and said the “AGI era” is now here. The discussion also points to next week’s Apple keynote format. As a result, attention shifts from the model release to broader claims about AGI alongside Nvidia’s Hugging Face acquisition and Apple leadership changes.
Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face as OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra. The Nvidia deal is valued at $12.9 billion. Nvidia’s acquisition shifts Hugging Face toward Nvidia-backed open-weight distribution while OpenAI’s Astra narrows availability to enterprise customers before broader rollout.
Nvidia completed its $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, moving the French-founded open-source AI platform fully into US ownership on September 2, 2026.
Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, making the open model hub part of Nvidia’s business rather than treating it as just a chip supplier. Hugging Face runs a library of more than 3 million models and hosts about 18 million developers and researchers. The acquisition is expected to fund enterprise-focused tooling for safety evaluation, deployment, and inference so more companies can move from testing open-weight models to production.
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