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Nvidia acquires Hugging Face
The Information reported on Aug 26, 2026 that Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model platform, for $12.9B, citing one person with knowledge of the deal. Business Insider reported that talks had not yet produced a signed agreement. Nvidia took part in Hugging Face's 2023 round at a $4.5B valuation. Neither company had commented when CNBC and TechCrunch published.
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- Announcedjust announced
- Announced
- 2026-08-263 months ago
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- 3 months
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World leader in accelerated computing and AI (NASDAQ: NVDA). In physical AI, NVIDIA develops the Isaac robotics platform: the GR00T open foundation model, Jetson edge compute (AGX Thor), Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim simulation environments, and Omniverse. NVIDIA positions itself as the platform layer for the humanoid industry. Developer of [GR00T N1](/brains/gr00t-n1), the first open humanoid foundation model.
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Open-source AI platform company and host of the model hub. In robotics, Hugging Face develops LeRobot, the open-source robot-learning framework that hosts and runs VLA models (pi0, GR00T N1.5) along with datasets, simulation environments, and training tooling. The de facto open hub for robotics Foundation models.
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