Nvidia buys the front door to open AI with a US$12.93 billion Hugging Face deal

DIGITIMESSeptember 4, 2026en

Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion pushes the world's dominant AI chip supplier past silicon and into the layer where developers actually pick their models — a position that gives it early sight of demand shifts, a structural hedge against customers designing their own accelerators, and a neutrality problem it has already had to answer for in writing.

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