Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

Posted by mfiguiere 7 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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__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.

Danox 4 hours ago||

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

sschueller 3 hours ago||

Is there any cash involved or is this all stock?

swayson 6 hours ago||

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

onlyrealcuzzo 6 hours ago||

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

tofuahdude 6 hours ago|||

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

stuxnet79 3 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 6 hours ago||

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

ericel123 1 hour ago||

Is it because OpenAI hacked it? :)

astudentinearth 5 hours ago||

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

manlymuppet 6 hours ago||

What’s with all the big acquisitions recently? Is it advantageous for some reason to announce all of this stuff now?

m4rtink 31 minutes ago||

No, its just the final stage of the bubble before it all comes crashing down. :)

brazukadev 6 hours ago||

The VC capital for AI is probably drying up. Now the question is: who will buy OpenAI and Anthropic?

vasco 6 hours ago||

The public

downrightmike 6 hours ago||

Not if they can't indefinitely contain ram and SSD procurement. And they can't and the Market already showed with specex that they are unwilling to float these fly by night outrageous 'investments' onto institutional holders.

Institutional holders mass revolted at spacex getting into the basket.

AI costs more than having people do the work. Q2 CFO reaction proved that.

seanmcdirmid 5 hours ago||

No, what? Did they just do this to make Chinese models harder to acquire outside of China?

alightsoul 5 hours ago|

They will just download them from modelscope

alansaber 5 hours ago||

Great for Nvidia. Bad for the rest of us. Oh well, so much for hugging face.

sgt101 1 hour ago|

DISASTER.

Gerard22Aug 43 minutes ago|

Licensing. (And there is no 2nd Amendment for this one)

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