Quick answer
NVIDIA announced on September 3, 2026 that it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. NVIDIA says Hugging Face will remain open to models and frameworks from across the AI ecosystem, continue supporting multiple clouds and accelerator platforms, and will not require NVIDIA hardware. The announcement describes an acquisition agreement rather than a completed transaction and does not provide a closing timetable. For developers, the practical position today is continuity: existing model, dataset, and deployment choices remain in place unless Hugging Face publishes specific product or policy changes later.
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced an agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. The announcement says NVIDIA plans to use its infrastructure, engineering, and global reach to improve the platform's reliability, safety, model evaluation, inference, and deployment capabilities. It describes the deal as an agreement to acquire, not as a completed acquisition, and gives no closing date.
Sources: NVIDIA, Associated Press
NVIDIA says the Hugging Face hub will stay open and hardware-neutral
The clearest commitment in NVIDIA's announcement is that Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the wider AI ecosystem. Developers are promised continued choice of models, frameworks, cloud providers, inference services, and computing platforms. NVIDIA specifically says its own compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face.
Sources: NVIDIA
Multi-cloud, multi-accelerator, and third-party model support are part of the plan
NVIDIA says Hugging Face will continue supporting open-source and open-weight models from every model builder, along with multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment. That distinction matters because the hub is used to distribute artifacts from competing model providers and to support deployment across different hardware and hosting environments. These are forward-looking commitments from the buyer; users should watch future Hugging Face terms, documentation, and product announcements for implementation details.
Sources: NVIDIA, Associated Press
Hugging Face's team and brand are expected to continue
Huang says the Hugging Face team will join NVIDIA while keeping the Hugging Face brand. NVIDIA reports that the platform serves more than 18 million developers, researchers, and creators, hosts more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million applications, and is used by more than 200,000 companies. Those usage figures are company-reported and are included here as scale indicators, not independent measurements.
Sources: NVIDIA
Developers do not need to change deployments based on this announcement alone
The announcement does not identify an immediate migration, API change, pricing change, repository change, or new hardware requirement. Teams using Hugging Face should continue normal dependency pinning, artifact verification, license review, and backup practices, while monitoring official documentation for concrete changes. A corporate ownership announcement is not evidence that any particular model has changed or become available in Chat AI.
Sources: NVIDIA
Frequently asked questions
What readers usually ask
Did NVIDIA acquire Hugging Face?
NVIDIA announced that it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. The announcement describes an acquisition agreement and does not say the transaction has already closed.
Will Hugging Face require NVIDIA GPUs?
NVIDIA says no. Its announcement states that NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face.
Will Hugging Face still support models from other companies?
NVIDIA says Hugging Face will continue supporting open-source and open-weight models from across the ecosystem and from every model builder.
Will Hugging Face remain multi-cloud and multi-accelerator?
NVIDIA says Hugging Face will continue to support multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment.
Do developers need to migrate repositories or deployments now?
No immediate migration was announced. Developers should monitor official Hugging Face documentation for any later product, policy, API, pricing, or infrastructure changes.
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