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Nvidia in reported $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal to protect chips and re-enter cloud

8/27/2026

A reported $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face puts Nvidia (NVDA) in focus, with the deal reaching well beyond chip hardware into AI software and cloud infrastructure.

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI model hub, in a transaction built, per the report, around protecting the chip empire and returning to the cloud business.

A definitive agreement is the next event that moves the setup.

What the reported price reflects At $12.9 billion, the reported figure places meaningful capital behind a platform that serves as a primary home for open-source AI model development.

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