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Nvidia acquires Hugging Face

Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model hub, for $12.9 billion. Nvidia was already a shareholder from a 2023 round valuing Hugging Face at $4.5B. The deal would give Nvidia control of the largest repository of open-source AI models and a cloud inference platform. Neither company has publicly confirmed as of Aug 27, 2026.

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investment
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Announcedjust announced
Announced
2026-08-26
20 days ago
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NVIDIAinvestor partner

World leader in accelerated computing and AI (NASDAQ: NVDA). In physical AI, NVIDIA develops the Isaac robotics platform: the GR00T open foundation model, Jetson edge compute (AGX Thor), Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim simulation environments, and Omniverse. NVIDIA positions itself as the platform layer for the humanoid industry. Developer of [GR00T N1](/brains/gr00t-n1), the first open humanoid foundation model.

HQSanta Clara, California, USAnvidia.com1109 partnerships

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Open-source AI platform company and host of the model hub. In robotics, Hugging Face develops LeRobot, the open-source robot-learning framework that hosts and runs VLA models (pi0, GR00T N1.5) along with datasets, simulation environments, and training tooling. The de facto open hub for robotics [Foundation](/companies/foundation) models.

HQBrooklyn, New York, USAhuggingface.co2 partnerships

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Sources (3)

  1. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/nvidia-hugging-face-acquisition.html
  2. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/nvidia-closes-in-on-hugging-face-acquisition/
  3. https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-talks-acquire-hugging-face-13-billion-deal-business-insider-reports-2026-08-27/

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