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NVIDIA buys Hugging Face for $12.93 billion: what it means

NVIDIA agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. For those of us running models at home that is our main supplier being bought by our hardware vendor, and I would make sure any model I rely on also lives on my own disk.

The video: RTX Spark Ships in October, and NVIDIA Buys Hugging FacePlays here, from YouTube
This story starts 2 minutes 35 seconds into my video of 6 September 2026, RTX Spark Ships in October, and NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face

NVIDIA agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. The figure in NVIDIA's statement is $12,930,300,000, and its filing with the SEC is dated 2 September.

For those of us running models at home, that is our main supplier being bought by our hardware vendor. TechCrunch reported 3 million models and 18 million developers on Hugging Face, and every model file I have ever downloaded came from there.

What NVIDIA said

Jensen Huang's statement, in NVIDIA's announcement, was unusually specific. It said Hugging Face would stay an open platform, and that developers would still choose their own models, frameworks, clouds and hardware.

The reaction

The reaction on the forums was mixed, and Georgi Gerganov posted his own view of what the deal means for his project.

My own feeling was that nothing would change that month, but any model you rely on should also live on your own disk.

What I would do

I would check that every model I rely on also lives on my own disk.

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The numbers in this story

FigureWhat it isFromKind
$12,930,300,000What NVIDIA agreed to pay for Hugging Faceblogs.nvidia.comNVIDIA's statement
3 million models, 18 million developersModels hosted on Hugging Face, and developers on ittechcrunch.comreported
An open platformWhat NVIDIA says Hugging Face will remainblogs.nvidia.comNVIDIA's statement

If a number on this page is wrong, I would rather know. Tell me in the comments under the video and I will correct it here and pin the correction there. What has been corrected so far is on the corrections page.