# Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion

https://mins.news/en/item/43679

- The Verge, 2026-09-03 12:12 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/tech/985474/nvidia-buying-hugging-face-deal

> Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing the open-source AI platform for models, datasets, and tools under the chipmaker’s ownership. Hugging Face was last officially valued at $4.5 billion in 2023. The deal would give Nvidia a strategic foothold in open-source AI as it seeks to defend its hardware dominance.

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