Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
After weeks of swirling rumors, Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face’s platform hosts three million models, one million applications used by over 18 million developers, and half a million datasets.
In a blog post, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said that Hugging Face will continue to support open-source and open-weight models and will work on expanding developer access.
“Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem. Developers will choose the models they want, the frameworks they want, the clouds and inference service providers they want and the computing platforms they want. Nvidia compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face,” said Huang.
Huang touted Nvidia’s contributions and said that the chip company has released more than 500 models and 250 open datasets on Hugging Face. He argued that the company builds open models...
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