Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
Summary
Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face, a popular platform for sharing open-source AI models and datasets, for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face, founded in 2016, functions as a community hub where AI developers can share projects and collaborate, often compared to GitHub (a code-sharing platform) but specifically for AI models. This acquisition will bring Hugging Face under the control of Nvidia, the world's largest maker of AI chips.
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Related Issues
CVE-2026-63086: text-generation-inference through 3.3.7 contains a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the OpenAI-compat
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/985474/nvidia-buying-hugging-face-deal
First tracked: September 3, 2026 at 02:01 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%