--- title: Hugging Face explores a sale at a $13bn valuation,... description: Hugging Face has hired bankers to explore a sale at a valuation of $13bn or more, nearly triple the $4.5bn mark it carried after its 2023 raise, according to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-explores-a-sale-at-a-13bn-valuation-nearly-triple-its-last-one-yulcgdtpn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hugging Face explores a sale at a $13bn valuation, nearly triple its last one | daily.dev og:description: Hugging Face has hired bankers to explore a sale at a valuation of $13bn or more, nearly triple the $4.5bn mark it carried after its 2023 raise, according to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-explores-a-sale-at-a-13bn-valuation-nearly-triple-its-last-one-yulcgdtpn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yULcGDTPn.png og:image:alt: Hugging Face explores a sale at a $13bn valuation, nearly triple its last one 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. # Hugging Face explores a sale at a $13bn valuation, nearly triple its last one **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hugging Face has hired bankers to explore a sale at a valuation of $13bn or more, nearly triple the $4.5bn mark it carried after its 2023 raise, according to Business Insider reporting that talks are early with no bidder identified yet. The company, which hosts over three million public models and about a million datasets, has not raised externally in three years and still has roughly half of its ~$400mn in lifetime funding unspent as of November 2025. Analysts note the tension between being acquired by a company with its own models and Hugging Face's role as neutral, trusted infrastructure for open weights. The Hub also faces growing moderation and regulatory exposure, including malicious models found in supply chain attacks and nonconsensual deepfake tools traced to hosted components. Plausible buyers are mostly existing investors like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, IBM, and Salesforce, though an exploratory process could end in another funding round instead of a sale. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What valuation is Hugging Face reportedly seeking in a potential sale? Hugging Face has retained bankers to test the market for a sale at a valuation of $13bn or higher, according to reporting by Business Insider. That figure is nearly triple the $4.5bn valuation it carried after its last outside round, a $235mn raise in August 2023 led by Salesforce Ventures with Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, IBM, Sequoia Capital, and Lux Capital participating. _Anyone tracking AI infrastructure consolidation can follow how this story develops on daily.dev._ ### How much funding has Hugging Face raised and how much is left unspent? Hugging Face has raised roughly $400mn over its lifetime, and as of November 2025 about half of that remained unspent. It hasn't raised externally since its August 2023 round, an unusually long gap in a sector where three years spans several funding cycles, giving it a strong negotiating position rather than a pressing need to sell. _Developers weighing which AI infrastructure providers are financially stable can keep up with funding news like this on daily.dev._ ### Why would an acquisition of Hugging Face by a company like Nvidia or Google be controversial? Hugging Face's value rests on being a neutral platform developers trust to publish and download open model weights, and that trust tends not to survive being owned by a company that sells its own competing models. Plausible buyers are mostly existing investors including Nvidia, Google, Amazon, IBM, and Salesforce, all of whom would have incentive to fold the Hub into their own ecosystem. _Developers deciding where to host or source open models can track platform ownership shifts 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: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#venture-capital](https://daily.dev/tags/venture-capital) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-explores-a-sale-at-a-13bn-valuation-nearly-triple-its-last-one-yulcgdtpn) ```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":"Hugging Face explores a sale at a $13bn valuation, nearly triple its last one","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-explores-a-sale-at-a-13bn-valuation-nearly-triple-its-last-one-yulcgdtpn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-explores-a-sale-at-a-13bn-valuation-nearly-triple-its-last-one-yulcgdtpn"},"datePublished":"2026-08-24T08:33:37.761Z","dateModified":"2026-08-27T02:35:17.385Z","description":"Hugging Face has hired bankers to explore a sale at a valuation of $13bn or more, nearly triple the $4.5bn mark it carried after its 2023 raise, according to...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/989da19bdda3b46bfbdca033d9dd9caf?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/989da19bdda3b46bfbdca033d9dd9caf?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-explores-a-sale-at-a-13bn-valuation-nearly-triple-its-last-one-yulcgdtpn","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"machine-learning,open-source,venture-capital","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Hugging Face explores a sale at a $13bn valuation, nearly triple its last one"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-explores-a-sale-at-a-13bn-valuation-nearly-triple-its-last-one-yulcgdtpn#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What valuation is Hugging Face reportedly seeking in a potential sale?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Hugging Face has retained bankers to test the market for a sale at a valuation of $13bn or higher, according to reporting by Business Insider. 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