Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B
The Information reports that Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model hub, for $12.9 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. The deal, which is not yet finalized, follows earlier reports of Hugging Face exploring a sale at a $13B+ valuation and talks with Microsoft that did not continue. The acquisition would put Nvidia in control of a platform hosting over 3 million open-source models and over 1 million datasets, bolstering its chip ecosystem and cloud ambitions.
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Katie Roof / Business Insider : Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest — The AI industry's next blockbuster acquisition may not be another model maker. — Hugging Face, whose platform helps developers discover …

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Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.
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Business Insider : Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing — Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face, the popular AI platform for sharing and building with open-source models, in what could be one of the chip giant's biggest deals yet.

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The Information : Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B — Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. — The move will put Nvidia in charge …

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英伟达对 Hugging Face 的收购,成了? 据 The Information 最新报道,知情人士透露, 英伟达已经同意以 129 亿美元收购 Hugging Face 。后者最为人熟知的身份,是全球最大的 AI 模型社区之一,拥有类似 GitHub 的开源 AI 模型代码库。 就在几天前,外媒的说法还只是:Hugging Face 正在寻找买家,潜在交易估值可能达到 130 亿美元以上。今天,又有媒体报道说,英伟达和 Hugging Face 就收购事宜进行了认真洽谈。而刚刚,The Information 直接说英伟达同意了交易。 如果交易最终落地,它的意义还不只是英伟达又买了一家公司。毕竟,Hugging Face 去年化收入目前也只有大约 1.5 亿美元。 129 亿美元,相当于八十多倍的年化收入 。 英伟达真正看中的,是 Hugging Face 背后的整个开放模型生态。 从一个聊天机器人,变成 AI 世界的「GitHub」 今天很多人认识 Hugging Face,是因为下载模型。 想找一个开源大模型,去 Hugging Face;想找数据集,去 Hugging Face;研究者训练出了一个新模型,需要把权重分享给全世界,第一反应往往还是上传 Hugging Face。 但这家公司一开始压根不是干这个的。 2016 年,Clément Delangue、Julien Chaumond 和 Thomas Wolf 在纽约成立 Hugging Face,最初想做的是一款面向年轻人的 AI 聊天机器人。后来团队发现,比聊天机器人本身更受欢迎的,是他们为了开发聊天机器人制作的 NLP 工具。 尤其是在 Transformer 模型开始爆发后,Hugging Face 做出的 PyTorch 实现和 Transformers 库迅速在研究者中流行起来,公司也逐渐放弃消费者聊天机器人,转向服务机器学习开发者。2020 年,Hugging Face Hub 上线,后来又陆续加入数据集、Spaces、模型部署等能力。 结果,它慢慢占住了一个非常特殊的位置。 Hugging Face 自己未必需要训练世界上最强的大模型,却可以让世界上大量模型都经过自己的平台。有点像 GitHub 并不负责写出全世界最好的软件,但全世界的软件开发者都离不开 GitHu

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Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.
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HuggingFace被曝卖身英伟达:129亿美元!全球最大AI开源平台改姓黄 Jay 2026-08-28 09:40:22 来源: 量子位 Hugging Face这把是真全员财富自由了啊o(╥﹏╥)o Jay 发自 凹非寺 量子位 | 公众号 QbitAI 啥,Hugging Face的买家, 原来是老黄??? 刚刚,The Information报道,英伟达已同意以 129 亿美元收购Hugging Face。 X上都疯了,全部惊叹于你黄叔叔的钞能力。 还有Hugging Face这把是真全员财富自由了啊o(╥﹏╥)o。 我就说,前段时间,「腼腆」的老黄为啥非常高调,亲自开推特,首发小作文声援开源。。。 敢情留了这么一手啊! 但值得注意的是,这场收购还没达成正式协议,所以结果嘛,还有不确定性。 但有个比较确定的—— 微软没谈成,哈哈哈! 英伟达+Hugging Face 事实上,上周末就有巨头要收购Hugging Face的消息,金额之巨大,大家一直在猜金主到底是谁。 商业内幕报道,微软也见过Hugging Face,但可惜,没谈成。 现在靴子落地,最后掏钱的成了老黄。 回看这场收购,其实也早已草蛇灰线。 英伟达本来就是Hugging Face的股东,2023年曾参与其2.35亿美元的D轮融资。那轮由Salesforce Ventures领投,谷歌、亚马逊、英特尔、AMD等一众巨头跟投, 投后估值45亿美元 。 从45亿到129亿,三年时间,估值翻了近3倍。 但说实话,对英伟达来说,129亿美元可能真不算多。 更有意思的问题是,Hugging Face从前脚拒绝英伟达,到后脚同意被收购—— 中间究竟发生了什么? Hugging Face,2016年在纽约成立,最早的产品其实是一款聊天机器人App,后来转型做开源模型托管,成了开发者上传、分享、下载AI模型和数据集的集散地,人送外号「 AI界的GitHub 」。 如今,这个外号成了真正的名片。 平台上 托管着超过300万个开源模型 和超过100万个数据集,几乎全球所有做开源模型的团队,都要在这里安家。 考虑到英伟达的生态位,选择收购Hugging Face并不意外,与前段时间Stripe收购OpenRouter有异曲同工之妙。 但其实挺讽刺的。 据FT报道,就在去年年底,Hugging Face还拒绝过英伟达
