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Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal

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Source: The Guardian TechnologySeptember 3, 2026

Summary

Nvidia, a major semiconductor (computer chip) company, is purchasing Hugging Face, a popular platform where developers share and access open-source AI models (pre-trained AI systems available for anyone to use), for approximately $12.9 billion. Nvidia is making this investment because it hopes that supporting open AI models will help maintain demand for its chips even if sales slow down.

Classification

Attack SophisticationTrivial

Affected Vendors

NVIDIAHuggingFace

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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/03/nvidia-to-buy-hugging-face-in-129bn-deal

First tracked: September 3, 2026 at 02:01 PM

Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%