--- title: DOJ examines Nvidia's $12.9B deal to buy Hugging Face description: The US Justice Department is examining how Nvidia's $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face would affect competition in AI, according to Reuters. Officials want... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/doj-examines-nvidia-s-12-9b-deal-to-buy-hugging-face-kgo9hiia6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DOJ examines Nvidia's $12.9B deal to buy Hugging Face | daily.dev og:description: The US Justice Department is examining how Nvidia's $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face would affect competition in AI, according to Reuters. Officials want... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/doj-examines-nvidia-s-12-9b-deal-to-buy-hugging-face-kgo9hiia6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KgO9HIiA6.png og:image:alt: DOJ examines Nvidia's $12.9B deal to buy Hugging Face og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DOJ examines Nvidia's $12.9B deal to buy Hugging Face **[Collections](https://daily.dev/sources/collections)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The US Justice Department is examining how Nvidia's $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face would affect competition in AI, according to Reuters. Officials want to know whether the deal lets Nvidia 'capture a fundamental distribution point for AI' and whether it could use Hugging Face to hurt rivals. Nvidia agreed to the deal in September and expects it to close in the first half of 2027. The inquiry runs alongside a years-long DOJ probe into Nvidia's conduct, which began under President Biden and covers the company's deals, stakes in other firms, and chip sales. ## Content The US Justice Department is asking how Nvidia's $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face would affect competition in AI, Reuters reported. Officials want to know whether the deal would let Nvidia "capture a fundamental distribution point for AI." They are also asking whether Nvidia could use Hugging Face to hurt rivals. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face in September and expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027. The inquiry runs alongside a years-long DOJ probe into Nvidia's conduct. That probe began under President Biden and covers the company's deals, its stakes in other firms and its chip sales. The deal has already drawn attention from people inside the AI community. @Thom_Wolf shared a note from @lukas_m_ziegler marking a little over a month since the announcement, calling the two companies a natural pairing. The question regulators are circling is a fair one. Hugging Face is where a huge share of open models and datasets get hosted and shared, and Nvidia sells the chips most of them run on. Whether owning both ends of that pipeline is a problem is what the DOJ is trying to work out. ## Questions this post answers ### Why is the DOJ investigating Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face? The Justice Department wants to know whether the $12.9 billion deal would let Nvidia capture a fundamental distribution point for AI and whether Nvidia could use Hugging Face to hurt rivals. Nvidia sells the chips that run most open models, and Hugging Face hosts a huge share of those open models and datasets, so regulators are examining whether owning both ends of that pipeline harms competition. _Developers relying on Hugging Face for open models can follow how this antitrust review unfolds on daily.dev._ ### When did Nvidia agree to buy Hugging Face and when will the deal close? Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face in September for $12.9 billion and expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027. The acquisition is now also subject to a Department of Justice review examining its effect on AI competition, running alongside a separate, years-long DOJ probe into Nvidia's broader conduct that began under President Biden. _Teams planning around Hugging Face's roadmap can track deal timing and regulatory outcomes on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-confirms-it-will-buy-hugging-face-for-12-9-billion-g9f1t3g9c) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/doj-examines-nvidia-s-12-9b-deal-to-buy-hugging-face-kgo9hiia6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"DOJ examines Nvidia's $12.9B deal to buy Hugging Face","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/doj-examines-nvidia-s-12-9b-deal-to-buy-hugging-face-kgo9hiia6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/doj-examines-nvidia-s-12-9b-deal-to-buy-hugging-face-kgo9hiia6"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T20:18:03.902Z","dateModified":"2026-10-28T21:34:43.815Z","description":"The US Justice Department is examining how Nvidia's $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face would affect competition in AI, according to Reuters. 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