NVIDIA reportedly in talks to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

Business Aug 29, 2026

NVIDIA is reportedly in talks to acquire Hugging Face, the popular platform known as a kind of GitHub for the AI era, for $13 billion.

Hugging Face community strengthens open-weight adoption

Open-weight AI models are getting a lot of buzz because they're flexible and more affordable, even though only 6% of companies use them right now.

With Hugging Face's huge developer community, NVIDIA could make its hardware even more essential for anyone working with cutting-edge AI.

The trend is clear: it looks like open-weight models are quickly becoming the next big thing in tech.