NVIDIA has officially agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000 in a major move aimed at scaling the popular platform and expanding access to artificial intelligence for developers and institutions around the world. The acquisition joins two prominent forces in the tech industry, uniting NVIDIA’s computing power with the vibrant home for open model developers that Hugging Face has built over the past decade.
Founded by Clem Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face has grown into a massive hub for the global artificial intelligence community. Today, more than 18 million developers, researchers and creators use Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications. Additionally, more than 200,000 companies depend on the platform to discover, evaluate, customize and deploy AI solutions.
Despite the acquisition, the platform will retain its original core mission and independence in terms of developer choices. Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem. Developers will continue to choose the models they want, the frameworks they want, the clouds and inference service providers they want and the computing platforms they want. Furthermore, NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face. The company will also maintain its support for open source and open weight models from across the ecosystem, from every model builder, while supporting multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment so builders can use the hardware that best fit their work.
This strategic acquisition aligns with both companies shared belief in the power of open models. Open weights let startups, businesses, universities and public institutions build on advanced capabilities without training every model from scratch, enabling organizations to match the right model to the right job. Industry leaders emphasize that this approach allows AI to advance safely, strengthen cybersecurity and sovereignty, accelerate innovation, and reach factories, hospitals, farms, classrooms and Main Street businesses around the world.
NVIDIA has long been committed to open weight models through multiyear investments and major contributions to open source platforms. In fact, NVIDIA is the largest contributor of open models and data to Hugging Face, and our contributions continue to grow. To date, NVIDIA has released more than 500 models on Hugging Face and more than 250 open datasets, building its own models, libraries and tools in the open so developers everywhere can use them, modify them and build on top of them.
By combining forces, NVIDIA plans to use its infrastructure, engineering and global reach to enhance Hugging Face’s platform reliability, safety, model evaluation, inference and deployment capabilities, all while preserving its open ecosystem. Together, the two organizations plan to make AI more open, more capable and more accessible to people and institutions around the world, pushing the boundaries of what is possible for millions of builders
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