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2026-09-10 · Source：InfoWorld
The chipmaker's $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face comes with pledges of continued openness, but CIOs face a complication: no single viable open alternative does everything the platform does.
Nvidia said Thursday that it plans to pay $13 billion to acquire Hugging Face, placing the open AI platform under the ownership of the chipmaker. Word of the pending deal had been circulating for at least a week before the announcement. The move immediately raised a question for enterprise technology leaders: whether the open platform will remain open once it becomes a unit of Nvidia.
That concern is sharpened by the absence of alternatives. There is currently no single viable open platform that does everything Hugging Face does for enterprises, which complicates the calculus for CIOs weighing their options. Nvidia, for its part, sought to preempt doubts in its announcement, stating that Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem and that developers will choose the models, frameworks, clouds, inference service providers and computing platforms they want. The company explicitly said Nvidia compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face.
The chipmaker also committed to continuing support for open source and open weight models from every model builder, and to maintaining multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment so builders can use whatever hardware and infrastructure best fits their work.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue addressed customers on X, saying "open-source AI is at an inflection point." He argued the business needs "more compute, more support, more collaboration and more visibility" to scale, and that is why "we went to talk to" Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, "who offered to do exactly that with us."
Beyond the platform itself, Nvidia is also attempting to retain some of the Hugging Face workforce as part of the transaction.
Mots-clés: Nvidia · Hugging Face · Clément Delangue · Jensen Huang · Open Source AI · M&A
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