Hugging Face goes from a ‘scrappy’ startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition
- Posted on September 3, 2026
- By Fortune
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Hugging Face goes from a ‘scrappy’ startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition
The deal may encourage adoption of open-weight models, but AI insiders worry Nvidia will subtly optimize these models to run on its own chips.
