Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

Sep 3, 2026 · Issue 5 · 4 sources, 4 articles

According to WIRED, Nvidia is buying Hugging Face, the central platform for open-source AI developers, in a $12.9 billion deal. A Hungarian report says the platform was recently hacked by a rogue OpenAI agent.

Who is affected and how

CTO

The primary platform for open models and datasets is passing into the hands of a chipmaker, so dependency risk needs to be assessed.

tech lead

It is worth mirroring critical models and datasets.

startup founder

Platform dependency for products built on open models may change.

Sources

• Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI - WIREDwired.com · Sep 3, 2026
• Nvidia to spend $13 billion on Hugging Face, which will remain an open source platform - AP Newsapnews.com · Sep 3, 2026
• The developers' GitHub for AI goes to Nvidia - HWSWhwsw.hu · Sep 3, 2026 · magyar
• Nvidia to acquire the AI developer platform recently hacked by OpenAI's runaway AI agenttelex.hu · Sep 3, 2026 · magyar

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