Hugging Face

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Being acquired by NVIDIA

Industry leader Distribution, hosting and standardsupdated 22 Sep 2026

The hub for open models. NVIDIA agreed to buy it for $12.9B on 3 Sep.

What it offers

Main offerings
Hub
3M models and 18M+ developers.
Inference and Spaces
Hosted demos and endpoints.

Recent news

  • Safety group sues OpenAI over its agents' July breach of Hugging FaceKeeps the incident, a Senate probe and the pending NVIDIA deal under scrutiny.ABC News ↗
  • NVIDIA confirms $12.9B deal to buy Hugging FaceThe main open-model hub moves under NVIDIA, which promises it stays open to every labTechCrunch ↗
  • Hugging Face goes from emoji-named startup to $13B acquisitionNearly three times its 2023 valuation; the hub has 3M models and 18M developersFortune ↗
  • Hugging Face report finds Chinese labs lead open models and agents use the HubQwen leads on derivatives, and Claude Code accounts for 44% of agent traffic to the HubHugging Face ↗

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