Software Engineering Daily · Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Nvidia is reportedly acquiring Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a move that could significantly alter the distribution and development of AI models. Hugging Face is a popular platform for hosting and distributing open AI models, boasting 20 million developers and over 3 million models.
“the news was dropping that Nvidia were definitely, definitely as it can be, but definitely buying Hugging Face. This had been rumored, I think last week, but yeah, it's been sort of announced for about 12.9 billion.”
“I don't understand why Nvidia would want to do that because they make a lot of money from these people. In my mind like it's really, I mean, I guess if you don't know what hugging face is, it's it's become really like the default hosting and distribution layer for sort of not open AI but open sort of AI models. And they have a lot of developers, is on like 20 million developers there. And there's over 3 million models and there's data sets and all kinds of stuff on there.”
“And I think you could kind of, you might be able to make a similar argument here where the more people who are building models, using models, running models is ultimately great for Nvidia's business.”