--- title: NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face | daily.dev description: NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, with founder Clem Delangue and the Hugging Face team continuing to lead the platform. NVIDIA... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face-afkawbkiu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face | daily.dev og:description: NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, with founder Clem Delangue and the Hugging Face team continuing to lead the platform. NVIDIA... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face-afkawbkiu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AFkAWbKIu.png og:image:alt: NVIDIA to Acquire 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. # NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face **[NVIDIA](https://daily.dev/sources/nvidia)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, with founder Clem Delangue and the Hugging Face team continuing to lead the platform. NVIDIA states Hugging Face will remain an open, multi-cloud, multi-accelerator platform, with no requirement to use NVIDIA compute. Hugging Face currently serves over 18 million developers, hosting 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million applications, used by more than 200,000 companies. NVIDIA frames the deal as reinforcing its long-standing contributions of open models and datasets to the platform, aiming to scale infrastructure, reliability, and deployment capabilities while preserving the open ecosystem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face and how much is the deal worth? NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. The deal was announced by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, with Hugging Face founders Clem Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf continuing to lead the platform and community under NVIDIA. _Developers tracking shifts in the AI tooling landscape can follow acquisition news like this on daily.dev._ ### Will Hugging Face require NVIDIA hardware to use after the acquisition? No, NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face after the acquisition. The platform will remain open, continuing to support multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development so builders can choose the hardware, frameworks, and inference providers that fit their work. _Anyone weighing infrastructure choices for AI deployment can keep tabs on platform changes via daily.dev._ ### How many models and datasets does Hugging Face host and how many developers use it? Hugging Face hosts more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million applications, used by over 18 million developers, researchers, and creators, with more than 200,000 companies using the platform to discover, evaluate, customize, and deploy AI. NVIDIA is described as the largest contributor of open models and data, having released over 500 models and 250 open datasets. _Developers gauging the scale of the open model ecosystem can track these numbers 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), [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face-afkawbkiu) ```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":"NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face-afkawbkiu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face-afkawbkiu"},"datePublished":"2026-09-03T12:24:32.174Z","dateModified":"2026-09-03T12:45:05.898Z","description":"NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, with founder Clem Delangue and the Hugging Face team continuing to lead the platform. 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