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Posted by mfiguiere 5 hours ago

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B(www.businessinsider.com)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op... (paywalled)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in...

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seydor 1 hour ago|
Good timing
janalsncm 4 hours ago||
They were already pretty vocal about it, but this makes Nvidia pretty much the de facto face of open weight models.

As battle lines get drawn over duopoly vs. open weight it’ll be interesting to see what Nvidia does. They definitely want a piece of more of the stack especially as Huawei chips become more and more of an alternative to cuda.

alightsoul 3 hours ago|
Alibaba already has modelscope and their own chips, and qwen models. Nvidia is doing the same with chips, huggingface and nemotron models
jazzpush2 3 hours ago||
NVIDIA had more open-source models on huggingface than any other company. A lot better them than any other frontier lab, tbh.
akulbe 3 hours ago||
Like some other folks, I wonder whether this will be a good thing, or a bad thing.

I feel like if Nvidia ends up turning into a bad actor, in terms of restricting/censoring models... another HF will spring up.

aizk 5 hours ago||
Fix your title it's not finalized yet!
girfan 5 hours ago|
According to The Information, it seem it's finalized? https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op...
underdeserver 1 hour ago||
Then use that as the link.

Everything I can find online is referring to this one source. That doesn't tell me if it's happening or not.

austinbaggio 3 hours ago||
Monumental implications on OS models. Proper investment in US OS incoming? HF has the best possible distribution to that audience
Danox 3 hours ago||
Not good news and in the long run this circular move will fail for them. What are the alternatives?
sourdecor 4 hours ago||
What does Linus’s hatred of NVidia drivers imply for this situation?
__mharrison__ 4 hours ago|
The lowest hanging fruit that hf could offer is community monitored commands for running local models.

Right now it is a pain to find the correct incantation.

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