# NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face

NVIDIA announced it will acquire the AI platform while maintaining support for multi-cloud environments, multi-accelerator hardware, and non-NVIDIA compute.

- The acquisition price is $12,930,300,000.
- Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million applications across 18 million users and 200,000 companies.
- NVIDIA compute will not be required to build or deploy models through Hugging Face.

## Why it matters

AI developers and enterprises will see the central open-model repository owned by NVIDIA while retaining hardware and cloud neutrality.

## Sources

- [NVIDIA AI: NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-09-03. https://dstilled.ai/story/9e892ce9-f1e0-4c0e-b4a3-807909a4540f