Delangue announces Hugging Face's intention to join NVIDIA in a $12.93B acquisition

Delangue wrote that HF intends to join NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition, saying open-source AI is at an inflection point ten years after HF was founded and that scaling it needs more compute, support, collaboration and visibility, which is why he went to Jensen. He told CNBC HF approached Huang weeks earlier; he has linked the summer's OpenAI-agent breach to his conviction that defenders need open models. Verified via syndication (2026-09-03T12:04Z).

Super happy to share our intention to join forces with NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition 💛💚

10 years after starting Hugging Face, open-source AI is at an inflection point. Thanks to the community, we’ve shown that it can be a complement, and even an alternative, to closed-source APIs. But for it to happen at larger scale, it needs more compute, more support, more collaboration and more visibility. That’s why we went to talk to Jensen, who offered to do exactly that with us.

In addition to doubling down on NVIDIA’s massive contributions to open-source AI (I called them the “King of American open-source AI” earlier this year), they’ve committed to strongly supporting Hugging Face and our mission while keeping the platform open, independent and compute agnostic. The founders and the team are all staying to keep pushing this mission forward.

Together, we think we can make open source the default way to build AI, with the goal of empowering 100 million AI builders to own their intelligence rather than rent it.

Excited about the next 10 years! 🤗🤗🤗

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