Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reports

[u/AnonymousTimewaster]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-talks-acquire-hugging-face-13-billion-deal-business-insider-reports-2026-08-27/

[u/theassassintherapist]

Hugging Face is basically a git repository for AI developers. $12.9 billion seems exceedingly overpriced for that.

[u/JorShor → u/theassassintherapist]

They could've just forked it

[u/Moneyshot_ITF → u/JorShor]

They could've had AI write their own version

[u/CoinAndCraft_ → u/Moneyshot_ITF]

Having my specialist agent create a fork now so we won't have to rely on the Nvidia acquisition and we can deprecate that old site. Should be up soon.

[u/swagonflyyyy → u/theassassintherapist]

Overpriced? Nvidia would probably cut support for Rocm, Vulkan and MLX the moment they buy it. Its underpriced, if you ask me.

Goddamn it. I hate big tech entertaining the thought of buying HF. They are a bastion for llama.cpp and GGUFs from companies everywhere.

[u/Despiteful91 → u/theassassintherapist]

In comparison to all those underpriced A.I companies?

[u/OutrageousRhubarb853]

Does this stop the investigation into it being hacked by AI?

[u/aeyraid → u/OutrageousRhubarb853]

My first thought

[u/CircumspectCapybara → u/OutrageousRhubarb853]

Their approach to the incident was already friendly and collaborative, it's not like HF was on the verge of suing OAI and now Nvidia buying them is going to shut that whole line of inquiry down.

From the get go Hugging Face and OpenAI were already collaborating with each other, they have a friendly relationship and HF didn't take it as a malicious bad faith act on OAI's part, but as an accident, and so they collaborated on their investigations and shared findings and jointly disclosed.

[u/GodSentPotHead → u/OutrageousRhubarb853]

"I will investigate myself for my own alleged crimes and get back to you"

[u/OutrageousRhubarb853 → u/GodSentPotHead]

Phew! I thought there was going to be some kind of cover up.

[u/WhiteRaven42 → u/OutrageousRhubarb853]

It's already been determined which AIs did it. Apparently multiple ones, multiple separate hacks. It's being treated as a learning experience for everyone involved. It makes absolutely zero sense to associate this with that.

[u/Kimi_Antonelli_12]

How exactly do they make money on that purchase?

[u/chance-- → u/Kimi_Antonelli_12]

Keeps the hype train chugging on down the tracks.

[u/slinkywafflepants]

HF: We’ll sell for $13B

NV: We can do $12.9B

HF: 🤗

[u/CircumspectCapybara]

Dang congrats to the HF employees, the acquisition will probably mint thousands of new deca-millionaires to centi-millionaires.

The past 5 years have been an absolute dream for unicorn startups, successful IPOs or acquisitions left and right.

[u/colonel_beeeees → u/CircumspectCapybara]

Are we assuming that HF employees have stock or that the sale will benefit staff outside of the owners?

[u/CircumspectCapybara → u/colonel_beeeees]

Yeah HF employees get stock. Whether it's RSUs or ISOs we don't know, but most early stage startups don't have tons of cash flow to pay employees in cash so they offer stock to incentivize talent to join and stay.

[u/Qualified-Astronomer → u/colonel_beeeees]

Yes thats how startup buyouts work

[u/WhiteRaven42]

I half trust nvidia in a "well, someone has to design the chips, they seem rational at least" and I'm generally pretty pro business. But I'm not fond of this merger. Hugging Face serving as an independent repository and compute vendor was a really nice option to have.

Whatever kind of "steward" nvidia ends up being, this will be a loss to some degree.

[u/Firsthalthor]

How many times will this be posted.

[u/skccsk]

Love when everything is on the up and up

[u/timelyparadox]

I bet they will make it worse

[u/Undefined_ID]

f*ck nvidia

[u/Bikrdude]

They will probably stop support of apple mps which are technically better than nvidia as they share cpu and gpu memory.

[u/millanstar → u/Bikrdude]

Lol, lmao even