r/LocalLLaMA · AIHOT featured · Published 2026-09-03
NVIDIA announces a Hugging Face acquisition agreement and commitments to choice
NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire Hugging Face, with commitments to preserve choice across models, clouds, inference services and compute hardware.
An agreement was announced
The September 3 announcement gives a price of $12,930,300,000, about $12.9 billion. This is an announced acquisition agreement, not a statement that closing has completed.
What the platform commitments cover
NVIDIA says developers will retain choices of models, frameworks, clouds, inference providers and computing platforms. It commits to open-source and open-weight models, multiple clouds and accelerators; NVIDIA compute will not be required.
Planned platform expansion
The announcement proposes expanding the platform and infrastructure, including model evaluation, inference and deployment capabilities. These remain the company’s stated plans and commitments.
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