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 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 confirmed it will acquire Hugging Face after weeks of rumors. Nvidia will pay $12.93 billion for the platform. Nvidia said Hugging Face will keep supporting open-source/open-weight models while expanding developer access, and Nvidia compute will not be required to use or deploy through Hugging Face.
NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face. The deal price is $12,930,300,000. Hugging Face will remain an open platform supporting multi-cloud and open-weight models, with no required NVIDIA compute to use or deploy on it.
A language model training pipeline was built to generate p5.brush JavaScript sketches that paint watercolor-style images, using an open RL environment and open reward pool tied to aesthetic preference judgments. The post reports an HF command that trains with 110 steps and 240 episodes per run. As a result, three GRPO training runs with different reward-model weightings produced comparable watercolor outputs and all the RL environment, pool, training scripts, and trained models were published to run end-to-end on Hugging Face.
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