Nvidia is moving forward to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to a report from The Information. The acquisition could help the hardware giant expand and fortify its deep integration with the wider AI industry. Hugging Face is a cloud repository for AI models, similar in some respects to what GitHub is for conventional computer software.
Developers and researchers use Hugging Face to search for models that meet certain criteria, download and run them, and fine-tune them into different variants that then get uploaded back up to the platform. The deal is not finalized, so it could still run into trouble ahead, but both parties appear to be actively pursuing it.
Hugging Face reportedly had other companies trying to buy it, too, including Salesforce. Nvidia had invested in Hugging Face in the past, but it wasn’t the only one—Google and Microsoft had also invested. The company was founded in 2016. Nvidia and several other tech companies have publicly supported the role of open-weight models as alternatives to the proprietary closed-frontier models trained by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Nvidia has even released its own family of open models, called Nemotron. The acquisition of Hugging Face would be a significant move for Nvidia, and could help the company to further establish itself as a major player in the AI industry. As the use of AI models continues to grow, the importance of repositories like Hugging Face will only continue to increase.
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