# Ars Technica — Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the Github of AI, for $13 billion

- Company: Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-03T13:34:13+00:00
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/nvidia-buys-hugging-face-the-github-of-ai-for-13-billion/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7639-nvidia-buys-hugging-face-the-github-of-ai-for-13-billion
- Subject: Reporting

Nvidia agreed to buy AI model platform Hugging Face for $13 billion, aiming to accelerate the spread of open models. Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/nvidia-buys-hugging-face-the-github-of-ai-for-13-billion/:

> Nvidia has agreed to buy AI model platform Hugging Face for $13 billion

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