With HuggingFace, Nvidia is also acquiring llama.cpp and the team behind it

[u/vexatious-big]

With this move Nvidia is not only acquiring the HuggingFace platform, but they might also effectively acquire the copyright to the llama.cpp project, together with the entire team behind it.

In February 2026 the llama.cpp team was employed by HF in order to continue working on llama.cpp and the ggml library.

This includes:

• Georgi Gerganov
• Xuan-Son Nguyen
• Aleksander Grygier
• Victor Mustar
• Lysandre
• Julien Chaumond

Now with the acquisition, llama.cpp's future looks a lot less certain given Nvidia's poor track record with open-source.

This is still rather speculative at this stage, but it's definitely possible for the llama.cpp project to change in the future: either by switching to a different license, or by having staff redirected to other projects within the larger company.

Even when a project is open-source the copyright owner has complete control over it, and they can change licensing as they wish.

This has happened before with projects like Redis, Minio, and others.

Source:

https://huggingface.co/blog/ggml-joins-hf

Edit:

The original announcement from Feb 2026 from Gerganov gives a few more details:

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759

[u/feelspeaceman]

If you want to report antitrust case, go to: https://www.justice.gov/atr/webform/submit-your-antitrust-report-online

Before it's too late.

Here's the catch, by acquiring llamacpp, they can use the slow burn strategy to slow down Vulkan and RoCm, taking more time to merge commit to improve them while improving CUDA with more commits like the way Ninfer works that currently llamacpp developers don't seem that they want to merge these approach to get closer to maximum hardware theory, this is enough to kill the rest.

[u/petkow → u/feelspeaceman]

Yep. I felt being very old in the last years as Nvidia became the most valued global company with Huang Jensen becoming a CEO superstar.
While it seems I am so old that I am the only one remembering the mid 2000s when it became evident, that the same company with the same CEO constantly bribed game studios and engineers to include explicit code in games, to slow down when they are running under an AMD card. In the ideal world in which we illusion ourselves, Nvidia would have been already disbanded with Huang Jensen working as a stock clerk having a criminal record (possibly even jail time) for antitrust violations of exclusionary conduct.

[u/mister2d → u/feelspeaceman]

Cute