NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion—enabling the company to scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide.
"Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem," said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO. “Developers will choose the models they want, the frameworks they want, the clouds and inference service providers they want and the computing platforms they want. NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face.”
According to the announcement, Hugging Face will continue to support open source and open weight models from across the ecosystem, from every model builder. It will continue to support multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment, so builders can use the hardware and infrastructure that best fit their work.
More than 18 million developers, researchers, and creators use Hugging Face to share more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications. More than 200,000 companies use the platform to discover, evaluate, customize and deploy AI.
The company said in a statement, “NVIDIA has been committed to open weight models for years, demonstrated by multi-year investments and major contributions to open source platforms, including Hugging Face. … NVIDIA has released more than 500 models on Hugging Face and more than 250 open datasets. We build our own models, libraries and tools in the open so developers everywhere can use them, modify them and build on top of them.”
With this acquisition, Hugging Face can serve the global AI community on an unprecedented scale, NVIDIA said. NVIDIA’s infrastructure, engineering and global reach can help improve platform reliability, safety, model evaluation, inference and deployment capabilities, while preserving the open ecosystem that made Hugging Face foundational.
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