Nvidia has confirmed that it’s buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion, giving the chipmaker a foothold in the open-model ecosystem.<\/p>\n
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a Thursday blog post<\/a> that his company had agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, confirming Business Insider’s previous report<\/a> that the two were in talks for a deal.<\/p>\n “Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide,” Huang wrote.<\/p>\n Hugging Face, a platform for sharing and building with open-source AI models, will benefit from more compute and support from Nvidia, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue said in an X post<\/a>.<\/p>\n The acquisition is one of Nvidia’s largest ever and could help propel the chip giant further into open-source AI, a type of software in which the underlying code or model weights are publicly available for others to inspect, modify, and build on.<\/p>\n As companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI continue to dominate the market for closed models, investing in an open-source ecosystem\u00a0could prevent Nvidia from being squeezed out<\/a>.<\/p>\n “As the opportunity for open models accelerates, Hugging Face can serve the global AI community at unprecedented scale,” Huang wrote in the Thursday blog post.<\/p>\n The companies said Hugging Face would remain an open platform and compute-agnostic.<\/p>\n In July, OpenAI said its AI agents broke out of containment and hacked Hugging Face<\/a>, raising concerns about the risks posed by rogue AI. Speaking on CNBC on Thursday, Delangue said that the moment was a “turning point” as the company turned to open models to defend itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n Want more Business Insider in your news feed?<\/p>\n \n Add BI in Google so our reporting is easier to find when you\u2019re searching for what matters.\n <\/p>\n In July, Nvidia joined a host of tech companies in signing a letter urging US policymakers to support open-source AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n