# Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI

https://mins.news/en/item/43733

- WIRED, 2026-09-03 12:43 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.wired.com/story/nvidias-hugging-face-acquisition-is-a-dollar129-billion-bet-on-open-source-ai/

> The long-rumored $12.9 billion deal would give chip giant Nvidia access to a vast repository of open-source AI models and datasets, while helping it promote those resources.

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