Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

Posted by mfiguiere 6 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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akulbe 4 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.

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.

austinbaggio 4 hours ago||

Monumental implications on OS models. Proper investment in US OS incoming? HF has the best possible distribution to that audience

sschueller 2 hours ago||

Is there any cash involved or is this all stock?

sourdecor 5 hours ago||

What does Linus’s hatred of NVidia drivers imply for this situation?

Danox 4 hours ago||

Not good news and in the long run this circular move will fail for them. What are the alternatives?

__mharrison__ 5 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.

roschdal 1 hour ago||

Nvidia overpaid for Hugging Face.

swayson 5 hours ago||

Huggingface sold out. Sad day. All the good companies lose their 'dont do evil' clause as soon as they make bank

onlyrealcuzzo 5 hours ago||

You've sold out when you became VC Funded... It's just a matter of how long the free punch lasts.

tofuahdude 5 hours ago|||

What, are you expecting them to just work for good vibes?

stuxnet79 2 hours ago|||

It was either they (literally) sell out or enshittify. Choose your poison. Hosting and running LLMs is an expensive business to be in. There wasn't ever going to be a good ending to this story. The original investors need to be made whole.

herpdyderp 5 hours ago||

To be fair, this is the best thing that can happen for the founders. I don't blame them.

astudentinearth 4 hours ago|

Looks like owning the hardware wasn't enough and they want to own the ecosystem as well

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