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Posted by mfiguiere 9 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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WhereIsTheTruth 2 hours ago|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_foreclosure

This acquisition should be blocked (and never will sadly), they now have both the incentive and the ability to influence a platform that's supposed to be hardware agnostic (and built trust over that) toward CUDA stack

Microsoft did the exact same with github, acquired stack agnostic platform, and turned it into a copilot/azure one

zx8080 8 hours ago||
That's a great news for a few rich wallets and bad for all of us.
stackghost 8 hours ago||
HuggingFace offers abliterated/uncensored models, which would seem to run contrary to the "AI is too powerful for regular people" narrative that the big players are pushing.

My primary concern is that Nvidia will bow to the pressure and restrict abliterated/uncensored models on HF.

discodave 5 hours ago||
Pretty sure Nvidias dream is that OpenAI and Anthropic get into a hacking war using Nvidia cards.

The problem for them is that the leading provider of training and inference is actually AWS...

jacquesm 8 hours ago|||
That is a very good point. I will set aside some storage and download those models that I think are most at risk from a corporate clean-up action.
anon291 8 hours ago||
I don't think nvda has ever pushed the idea that ai is too powerful for regular people.

That's the anthropics and openais of the world.

maxlin 9 hours ago||
Big Wolf buying the sheep farm. Nice
alberth 8 hours ago||
I wonder if OpenRouter being acquired was a catalyst for this deal.
roschdal 4 hours ago||
Nvidia overpaid for Hugging Face.
heliosAtwork 7 hours ago||
Brilliant replacement of http://build.nvidia.com to increase developer reach and deployment of nvidia open models!
user- 9 hours ago||
Its becoming impossible to track all the acquisitions.
jadar 9 hours ago||
Hold on, these say no deal has been reached yet.
missingpackage 8 hours ago|
Nvidia has already a good free offer with Nim and a lot of compute power available. Plus, they obviously have interest in spreading open models culture.
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