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PublishedSeptember 3, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

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Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools under the ownership of the world's biggest AI chipmaker. Hugging Face is an online platform founded in 2016 that gives AI developers a space to
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