The math: 0x1F917 = 1\u00d765536 + 15\u00d74096 + 9\u00d7256 + 1\u00d716 + 7 = 129,303. And U+1F917 is officially named HUGGING FACE \u2014 ."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace"}},"_tags":["story","author_MontagFTB","story_49557813","ask_hn"],"author":"MontagFTB","children":[49557946,49558791,49558861,49559482],"created_at":"2026-09-03T22:08:41Z","created_at_i":1788473321,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"49557813","points":43,"story_id":49557813,"story_text":"NVIDIA acquired Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000
The math: 0x1F917 = 1\u00d765536 + 15\u00d74096 + 9\u00d7256 + 1\u00d716 + 7 = 129,303. And U+1F917 is officially named HUGGING FACE \u2014 .","title":"Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace","updated_at":"2026-09-06T08:57:09Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"tosh"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face..."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-for-almost-13-billion-ai-expansion.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_tosh","story_49548952"],"author":"tosh","children":[49549323,49549373,49549377,49549578,49549634,49549635,49549753,49549754,49549777,49550275,49550289,49550326,49550389,49550598,49550773,49551615,49551941,49552678,49552833,49552863,49552940,49553236,49553495,49553499,49553579,49553592,49554146,49555864,49563308,49565369,49566591,49656072],"created_at":"2026-09-03T12:10:33Z","created_at_i":1788437433,"num_comments":107,"objectID":"49548952","points":329,"story_id":49548952,"story_text":"https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face...","title":"Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face","updated_at":"2026-10-31T11:38:50Z","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-for-almost-13-billion-ai-expansion.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"meowsers"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"I still don't get why Clem now approeached Jensen about it despite the fact that last year HF turned down a large investment from NVIDIA at a US$7bn valuation to "maintain its independence".
https://aimagazine.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face\nhttps://www.ft.com/content/776dcb01-75cd-44df-bc52-63ca76d57..."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-for-almost-13-billion-ai-expansion.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_meowsers","story_49548952"],"author":"meowsers","comment_text":"I still don't get why Clem now approeached Jensen about it despite the fact that last year HF turned down a large investment from NVIDIA at a US$7bn valuation to "maintain its independence".
https://aimagazine.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face\nhttps://www.ft.com/content/776dcb01-75cd-44df-bc52-63ca76d57...","created_at":"2026-09-04T16:10:14Z","created_at_i":1788538214,"objectID":"49566591","parent_id":49548952,"story_id":49548952,"story_title":"Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face","story_url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-for-almost-13-billion-ai-expansion.html","updated_at":"2026-09-07T21:50:00Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"zezaggering"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"Nvidia Acquiring HuggingFace"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/"}},"_tags":["story","author_zezaggering","story_49560102"],"author":"zezaggering","children":[49560426],"created_at":"2026-09-04T03:12:56Z","created_at_i":1788491576,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"49560102","points":5,"story_id":49560102,"title":"Nvidia Acquiring HuggingFace","updated_at":"2026-09-04T04:46:34Z","url":"https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"mfiguiere"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op... (paywalled)
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https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in...","title":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B","updated_at":"2026-11-03T11:02:00Z","url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"peri-cl"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"> "Makes me wonder what the next headline is going to be, probably some deal between NVidia and the federal government over export restrictions or something."
Chinese models disappearing from HuggingFace (recently acquired by Nvidia).
GLM-flash and Qwen-next disappeared from ArtificialAnalysis (the top benchmark site) a few days ago; I was wondering if that was a prelude to something greater. Testing the waters."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia"],"value":"Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia"],"value":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/business/alleged-chinese-spy-had-close-relationship-with-nvidia-boss-jensen-huang-report/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_peri-cl","story_50293047"],"author":"peri-cl","children":[50295259,50295641,50296345],"comment_text":"> "Makes me wonder what the next headline is going to be, probably some deal between NVidia and the federal government over export restrictions or something."
Chinese models disappearing from HuggingFace (recently acquired by Nvidia).
GLM-flash and Qwen-next disappeared from ArtificialAnalysis (the top benchmark site) a few days ago; I was wondering if that was a prelude to something greater. Testing the waters.","created_at":"2026-10-29T20:17:41Z","created_at_i":1793305061,"objectID":"50295222","parent_id":50295125,"story_id":50293047,"story_title":"Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang","story_url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/business/alleged-chinese-spy-had-close-relationship-with-nvidia-boss-jensen-huang-report/","updated_at":"2026-10-31T20:49:07Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"prsutherland"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"| Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
The title is not the linked article\u2019s title. It is the title of the first article in the description.
FWIW, \u201cagrees\u201d is a weird verb. Kinda sounds like they are doing this out of kindness and not their own interests."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8"}},"_tags":["comment","author_prsutherland","story_49458161"],"author":"prsutherland","comment_text":"| Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
The title is not the linked article\u2019s title. It is the title of the first article in the description.
FWIW, \u201cagrees\u201d is a weird verb. Kinda sounds like they are doing this out of kindness and not their own interests.","created_at":"2026-08-27T13:48:31Z","created_at_i":1787838511,"objectID":"49464885","parent_id":49458161,"story_id":49458161,"story_title":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B","story_url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8","updated_at":"2026-08-27T16:39:25Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"onel"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Out of all the companies that could have acquired hugging face, I think nvidia is the best fit. If it had to happen, happy it was them"},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8"}},"_tags":["comment","author_onel","story_49458161"],"author":"onel","comment_text":"Out of all the companies that could have acquired hugging face, I think nvidia is the best fit. If it had to happen, happy it was them","created_at":"2026-08-27T09:27:10Z","created_at_i":1787822830,"objectID":"49461993","parent_id":49458161,"story_id":49458161,"story_title":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B","story_url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8","updated_at":"2026-08-27T10:12:09Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Grombobulous"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"This is a tangent to my first comment parent to this one, but also more related to the actual article at hand: whether it's Amazon buying Roomba or Nvidia buying Hugging Face, I have a somewhat radical (or is it?) opinion that large companies like Nvidia, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, etc, should not actually be allowed to acquire companies. At all. under any circumstances, even if competition is healthy.
These companies are generally large enough that they do not need the competitive aid of buying an existing company and starting with that sort of structural advantage.
E.g., did Nvidia not have enough money in their bank to start a company to compete with Hugging Face? This is a company that reportedly has ~200-300 employees with investment rounds totaling $400 million. Nvidia made $31.9 billion in net income last quarter.
I look at a company like Xiaomi which just developed its automotive division in-house without resorting to buying car companies. I think our traditional business and finance mindset has an overreliance on acquisitions."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Grombobulous","story_49458161"],"author":"Grombobulous","children":[49472719],"comment_text":"This is a tangent to my first comment parent to this one, but also more related to the actual article at hand: whether it's Amazon buying Roomba or Nvidia buying Hugging Face, I have a somewhat radical (or is it?) opinion that large companies like Nvidia, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, etc, should not actually be allowed to acquire companies. At all. under any circumstances, even if competition is healthy.
These companies are generally large enough that they do not need the competitive aid of buying an existing company and starting with that sort of structural advantage.
E.g., did Nvidia not have enough money in their bank to start a company to compete with Hugging Face? This is a company that reportedly has ~200-300 employees with investment rounds totaling $400 million. Nvidia made $31.9 billion in net income last quarter.
I look at a company like Xiaomi which just developed its automotive division in-house without resorting to buying car companies. I think our traditional business and finance mindset has an overreliance on acquisitions.","created_at":"2026-08-27T03:39:50Z","created_at_i":1787801990,"objectID":"49459366","parent_id":49459152,"story_id":49458161,"story_title":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B","story_url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8","updated_at":"2026-08-27T23:52:11Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ChoosesBarbecue"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"a) So, this is all from July?
b) And this is before Hugging Face agreed to acquired by NVIDIA, supplier to OpenAI?"},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["hugging","face"],"value":"Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["hugging","face"],"value":"https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-delangue-openai-100m-compute-traces-demand"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ChoosesBarbecue","story_49716241"],"author":"ChoosesBarbecue","comment_text":"a) So, this is all from July?
b) And this is before Hugging Face agreed to acquired by NVIDIA, supplier to OpenAI?","created_at":"2026-09-15T19:11:39Z","created_at_i":1789499499,"objectID":"49717353","parent_id":49716241,"story_id":49716241,"story_title":"Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it","story_url":"https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-delangue-openai-100m-compute-traces-demand","updated_at":"2026-09-21T00:33:41Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"craftkiller"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Here's the content of the tweet so you don't have to give twitter any more traffic:
Hugging Face has been acquired by NVIDIA\n\n It is quite exciting to be a part of this journey! NVIDIA has been an active supporter of the llama.cpp project. For more than a year now, their engineers have actively contributed to the codebase, collaborated with the community and provisioned hardware for development and testing purposes. The local AI ecosystem has largely benefited from our joint efforts.\n\n Going forward, llama.cpp/ggml will stick to its founding principles. One of the most important qualities of the project is to be hardware-agnostic. Therefore the development and support of all backends will continue to be done as usual - driven and shaped by the community. Open to everyone who is willing to participate. The existence of such an independent software platform is crucial for the rapid adoption of AI locally and for bringing it closer to the user.\n\n Now, with such a significant partner as NVIDIA supporting us, in addition to the wider Hugging Face team, I believe that our long-term goals will be easier to achieve. We will remain focused on building one of the most exciting projects based on the most exciting technology of our lifetime and making it truly available to everyone in the most accessible and efficient way possible. Hugging Face has been acquired by NVIDIA\n\n It is quite exciting to be a part of this journey! NVIDIA has been an active supporter of the llama.cpp project. For more than a year now, their engineers have actively contributed to the codebase, collaborated with the community and provisioned hardware for development and testing purposes. The local AI ecosystem has largely benefited from our joint efforts.\n\n Going forward, llama.cpp/ggml will stick to its founding principles. One of the most important qualities of the project is to be hardware-agnostic. Therefore the development and support of all backends will continue to be done as usual - driven and shaped by the community. Open to everyone who is willing to participate. The existence of such an independent software platform is crucial for the rapid adoption of AI locally and for bringing it closer to the user.\n\n Now, with such a significant partner as NVIDIA supporting us, in addition to the wider Hugging Face team, I believe that our long-term goals will be easier to achieve. We will remain focused on building one of the most exciting projects based on the most exciting technology of our lifetime and making it truly available to everyone in the most accessible and efficient way possible.Microduck looks amazing, but the "Ships before Christmas 2026" is begging to be blown past. That's why I'm not pre-ordering. If it's around in the spring, let's go, but considering that HuggingFace just got acquired by Nvidia, I'm not sure where this all will go."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Microduck"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_tyre","story_49462763"],"author":"tyre","children":[49473173,49507333],"comment_text":"Personally I wouldn't choose one that hasn't shipped. Hardware projects are notorious for delivering late, with fewer features, or not at all.
Microduck looks amazing, but the "Ships before Christmas 2026" is begging to be blown past. That's why I'm not pre-ordering. If it's around in the spring, let's go, but considering that HuggingFace just got acquired by Nvidia, I'm not sure where this all will go.","created_at":"2026-08-27T21:10:55Z","created_at_i":1787865055,"objectID":"49471329","parent_id":49463993,"story_id":49462763,"story_title":"Microduck","story_url":"https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/","updated_at":"2026-08-31T19:09:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"u1hcw9nx"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Real title: "Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion""},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8"}},"_tags":["comment","author_u1hcw9nx","story_49458161"],"author":"u1hcw9nx","comment_text":"Real title: "Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion"","created_at":"2026-08-27T06:50:39Z","created_at_i":1787813439,"objectID":"49460803","parent_id":49458161,"story_id":49458161,"story_title":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B","story_url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8","updated_at":"2026-08-27T17:16:26Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"wongarsu"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"To play devil's advocate: Hugging Face was probably not profitable, and someone has to pay the bills long-term. Nvidia benefits from Hugging Face and the operating costs are pennies to them. For them it makes sense to acquire HF just to keep it running. HF shutting down or self-destructing in the search of profits would be costlier for Nvidia than just buying it now
That said, I share all your concerns. The days of a permissive hands-off HF may be numbered"},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8"}},"_tags":["comment","author_wongarsu","story_49458161"],"author":"wongarsu","children":[49461017,49461136,49472461],"comment_text":"To play devil's advocate: Hugging Face was probably not profitable, and someone has to pay the bills long-term. Nvidia benefits from Hugging Face and the operating costs are pennies to them. For them it makes sense to acquire HF just to keep it running. HF shutting down or self-destructing in the search of profits would be costlier for Nvidia than just buying it now
That said, I share all your concerns. The days of a permissive hands-off HF may be numbered","created_at":"2026-08-27T07:10:00Z","created_at_i":1787814600,"objectID":"49460977","parent_id":49460773,"story_id":49458161,"story_title":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B","story_url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8","updated_at":"2026-08-28T09:28:42Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"qrtas"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Translation: Gervanov's ggml.ai was acquired by Huggingface in Feb 2026, so he is now "excited about the journey" after the Huggingface acquisition by Nvidia.
Can we take this as an official statement that Nvidia supports local models?
Why would Nvidia increase GPU efficiency for local models? Surely they'll operate like athletes and only establish a new record from time to time when necessary."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/2095897173376618881"}},"_tags":["comment","author_qrtas","story_49567357"],"author":"qrtas","children":[49568097,49568117,49568671,49569350],"comment_text":"Translation: Gervanov's ggml.ai was acquired by Huggingface in Feb 2026, so he is now "excited about the journey" after the Huggingface acquisition by Nvidia.
Can we take this as an official statement that Nvidia supports local models?
Why would Nvidia increase GPU efficiency for local models? Surely they'll operate like athletes and only establish a new record from time to time when necessary.","created_at":"2026-09-04T17:49:54Z","created_at_i":1788544194,"objectID":"49567883","parent_id":49567357,"story_id":49567357,"story_title":"Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace","story_url":"https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/2095897173376618881","updated_at":"2026-09-05T06:43:52Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"echelon"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"> Pollen Robotics is a French company
Acquired by HuggingFace, a French-American company.
Acquired by Nvidia, an American company."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Microduck"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_echelon","story_49462763"],"author":"echelon","children":[49466511],"comment_text":"> Pollen Robotics is a French company
Acquired by HuggingFace, a French-American company.
Acquired by Nvidia, an American company.","created_at":"2026-08-27T15:06:02Z","created_at_i":1787843162,"objectID":"49466079","parent_id":49465952,"story_id":49462763,"story_title":"Microduck","story_url":"https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/","updated_at":"2026-08-29T13:45:17Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"pamcake"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"The initial HuggingFace post on the incident mentioned that they had reported law enforcement.
Shortly after, Nvidia acquired HF for $12.9B.
No such talk since.
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-talks-acquire-hugg..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460"}},"_tags":["comment","author_pamcake","story_49685991"],"author":"pamcake","children":[49696511],"comment_text":"The initial HuggingFace post on the incident mentioned that they had reported law enforcement.
Shortly after, Nvidia acquired HF for $12.9B.
No such talk since.
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-talks-acquire-hugg...","created_at":"2026-09-14T12:08:01Z","created_at_i":1789387681,"objectID":"49695488","parent_id":49688578,"story_id":49685991,"story_title":"David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models","story_url":"https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460","updated_at":"2026-09-15T00:18:52Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"solenoid0937"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"HuggingFace had no interest in squeezing a few million dollars out of OpenAI in the midst of being acquired by Nvidia.
The optics are bad for HF as well because they gladly host abliterated models with safety training removed. When Astra/Fable level open weights models arrive, HF will soon be the cause of far worse incidents, and they know it."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183"}},"_tags":["comment","author_solenoid0937","story_49586171"],"author":"solenoid0937","children":[49589346],"comment_text":"HuggingFace had no interest in squeezing a few million dollars out of OpenAI in the midst of being acquired by Nvidia.
The optics are bad for HF as well because they gladly host abliterated models with safety training removed. When Astra/Fable level open weights models arrive, HF will soon be the cause of far worse incidents, and they know it.","created_at":"2026-09-06T17:48:30Z","created_at_i":1788716910,"objectID":"49588979","parent_id":49588895,"story_id":49586171,"story_title":"QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes","story_url":"https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183","updated_at":"2026-09-16T15:55:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rvz"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Same reason why GitHub was acquired for $7.5B at $250 million ARR which is 30x revenues:
VCs could not see any other reason to raise more money and Huggingface was not growing as fast as they thought to justify the valuation or the next fundraise.
So they might as well get Nvidia to save them from the VCs pressurizing them."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face"],"value":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8"}},"_tags":["comment","author_rvz","story_49458161"],"author":"rvz","children":[49459025],"comment_text":"Same reason why GitHub was acquired for $7.5B at $250 million ARR which is 30x revenues:
VCs could not see any other reason to raise more money and Huggingface was not growing as fast as they thought to justify the valuation or the next fundraise.
So they might as well get Nvidia to save them from the VCs pressurizing them.","created_at":"2026-08-27T02:48:04Z","created_at_i":1787798884,"objectID":"49458957","parent_id":49458910,"story_id":49458161,"story_title":"Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B","story_url":"https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8","updated_at":"2026-08-28T11:17:43Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"iharnoor"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["nvidia","hugging","face","acquire"],"value":"kinda makes sense how Nvidia gets more distribution after acquiring hugging face, right?
i believe OSS STT is amazing but htings break udring mulaw and turn detection where closed source models still are ahead"},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia"],"value":"Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["nvidia"],"value":"https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-transcribe-granary"}},"_tags":["comment","author_iharnoor","story_50275128"],"author":"iharnoor","comment_text":"kinda makes sense how Nvidia gets more distribution after acquiring hugging face, right?
i believe OSS STT is amazing but htings break udring mulaw and turn detection where closed source models still are ahead","created_at":"2026-10-30T22:41:24Z","created_at_i":1793400084,"objectID":"50311051","parent_id":50275128,"story_id":50275128,"story_title":"Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages","story_url":"https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-transcribe-granary","updated_at":"2026-10-30T22:44:03Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":39,"nbPages":2,"page":0,"params":"query=nvidia+hugging+face+acquire&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":22,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":24},"afterFetch":{"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":1,"total":1},"total":1},"total":2},"fetch":{"query":14,"scanning":4,"total":19},"total":22},"query":"nvidia hugging face acquire","serverTimeMS":23}