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    Nvidia Reportedly Nearing Hugging Face Acquisition

    A post on X shares Bloomberg details on a potential Nvidia purchase of the AI company Hugging Face.

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    Rohan Paul posted on X citing Bloomberg that Nvidia is nearing an acquisition of Hugging Face. The post notes the price level relative to an earlier valuation round and mentions talks of an added employee retention package. Paul is identified in the post as a Bengaluru-based machine learning engineer who shares AI news. The claim rests on the cited Bloomberg reporting as presented in the visible post. No company statements appear in the packet.

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    Positive73.5%26.5%Negative

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    Sentiment

    Positive73.5%26.5%Negative

    Positive replies welcomed Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face acquisition and its Unicode easter egg as a brilliant boost for open models, while negative replies called the deal wasteful or raised IP-theft concerns.

    Based on 272 sentiment-bearing replies from 253 accounts across 8 conversations.

    Summary

    Positive replies welcomed Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face acquisition and its Unicode easter egg as a brilliant boost for open models, while negative replies called the deal wasteful or raised IP-theft concerns.

    Based on 272 sentiment-bearing replies from 253 accounts across 8 conversations.

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    290 Sources

    @rachelmetz👀
    @AndrewCurran_Bloomberg is reporting the amount is up to $14 billion now, because the deal may include over $1 billion in retention packages for Hugging Face employees. So if you work at HF, congratulations, and I'm happy for you.
    @rohanpaul_aiBloomberg: Nvidia is nearing a $12.9B Hugging Face acquisition. At this price, its about 2.9x Hugging Face's $4.5B valuation from its 2023 funding round. Nvidia also talking to add a $1B employee retention package to the deal.
    @JensenHuangExciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI. Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me. NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗 https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/
    @nvidianewsroomNEWS: NVIDIA has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire @huggingface, bringing together two companies with a shared commitment to advancing truly open-source AI. NVIDIA plans to help scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. 🤗 Hugging Face will remain an open, neutral and platform-agnostic home for the entire AI ecosystem.
    @ClementDelangueSuper happy to share our intention to join forces with NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition 💛💚 10 years after starting Hugging Face, open-source AI is at an inflection point. Thanks to the community, we’ve shown that it can be a complement, and even an alternative, to closed-source APIs. But for it to happen at larger scale, it needs more compute, more support, more collaboration and more visibility. That’s why we went to talk to Jensen, who offered to do exactly that with us. In addition to doubling down on NVIDIA’s massive contributions to open-source AI (I called them the “King of American open-source AI” earlier this year), they’ve committed to strongly supporting Hugging Face and our mission while keeping the platform open, independent and compute agnostic. The founders and the team are all staying to keep pushing this mission forward. Together, we think we can make open source the default way to build AI, with the goal of empowering 100 million AI builders to own their intelligence rather than rent it. Excited about the next 10 years! 🤗🤗🤗
    @IreneSolaimanRT @JensenHuang: Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diff…
    @CNBCNvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for almost $13 billion, expanding up AI stack https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-for-almost-13-billion-ai-expansion.html?taid=6a996312ae1ff00001c1f57e&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
    @firstadopterJensen: "I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide." "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. More than 200,000 companies use the platform to discover, evaluate, customize and deploy AI. Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem. Developers will choose the models they want, the frameworks they want, the clouds and inference service providers they want and the computing platforms they want. NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face. Hugging Face will continue to support open source and open weight models from across the ecosystem, from every model builder. It will continue to support multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment, so builders can use the hardware and infrastructure that best fit their work."
    @LysandreJikIncredibly excited for Hugging Face to step-up to the next level and join NVIDIA!

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    @rachelmetz👀
    @AndrewCurran_Bloomberg is reporting the amount is up to $14 billion now, because the deal may include over $1 billion in retention packages for Hugging Face employees. So if you work at HF, congratulations, and I'm happy for you.
    @rohanpaul_aiBloomberg: Nvidia is nearing a $12.9B Hugging Face acquisition. At this price, its about 2.9x Hugging Face's $4.5B valuation from its 2023 funding round. Nvidia also talking to add a $1B employee retention package to the deal.
    @JensenHuangExciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI. Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me. NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗 https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/
    @nvidianewsroomNEWS: NVIDIA has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire @huggingface, bringing together two companies with a shared commitment to advancing truly open-source AI. NVIDIA plans to help scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. 🤗 Hugging Face will remain an open, neutral and platform-agnostic home for the entire AI ecosystem.
    @ClementDelangueSuper happy to share our intention to join forces with NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition 💛💚 10 years after starting Hugging Face, open-source AI is at an inflection point. Thanks to the community, we’ve shown that it can be a complement, and even an alternative, to closed-source APIs. But for it to happen at larger scale, it needs more compute, more support, more collaboration and more visibility. That’s why we went to talk to Jensen, who offered to do exactly that with us. In addition to doubling down on NVIDIA’s massive contributions to open-source AI (I called them the “King of American open-source AI” earlier this year), they’ve committed to strongly supporting Hugging Face and our mission while keeping the platform open, independent and compute agnostic. The founders and the team are all staying to keep pushing this mission forward. Together, we think we can make open source the default way to build AI, with the goal of empowering 100 million AI builders to own their intelligence rather than rent it. Excited about the next 10 years! 🤗🤗🤗
    @IreneSolaimanRT @JensenHuang: Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diff…
    @CNBCNvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for almost $13 billion, expanding up AI stack https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-for-almost-13-billion-ai-expansion.html?taid=6a996312ae1ff00001c1f57e&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
    @firstadopterJensen: "I’m excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide." "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. More than 200,000 companies use the platform to discover, evaluate, customize and deploy AI. Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem. Developers will choose the models they want, the frameworks they want, the clouds and inference service providers they want and the computing platforms they want. NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face. Hugging Face will continue to support open source and open weight models from across the ecosystem, from every model builder. It will continue to support multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment, so builders can use the hardware and infrastructure that best fit their work."
    @LysandreJikIncredibly excited for Hugging Face to step-up to the next level and join NVIDIA!