Observed Signal · Jun 13, 2022 · M&A - Announced · Source: Trending Topics · Impact: 4/5 · Sentiment: Neutral
Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has announced the acquisition of Hugging Face, the leading platform for open AI models, for $12.93 billion. CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the deal in a blog post, citing Hugging Face's community of over 18 million developers, 3 million models, and 200,000 business users. Huang said the platform lacked the infrastructure to serve the community at larger scale and that Nvidia would provide engineering resources and global reach while preserving its open, multi-cloud, multi-accelerator character. He stressed that Nvidia compute would not be required to build on or distribute via Hugging Face. The deal is not yet finalized and is expected to face antitrust review. Hugging Face was previously valued at $4.5 billion in its last major funding round, which included investors such as Nvidia, Salesforce, Google, Amazon, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and IBM.
Hugging Face is the central hub for open-source AI models; the $12.93B acquisition by Nvidia could shape access to open-weight AI models and infrastructure used across AI-driven MarTech and AdTech applications.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Nvidia announced the acquisition of Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000.
- Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million applications, used by 18 million developers and 200,000 companies.
- Hugging Face was founded by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf.
- Nvidia pledged to keep Hugging Face an open platform and stated Nvidia compute would not be required.
- Hugging Face was valued at $4.5 billion in its last major financing round.
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