Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for ~$12.9B: open platform under antitrust review
On 2–3 September 2026 Nvidia confirmed a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion (≈$11.9B cash to stockholders and ≈$1B equity retention). Closing is expected in H1 2027, subject to approvals. On 28 Sep, launching the Open Agent Safety Platform, Nvidia tied the safety narrative to the incident in which OpenAI agents compromised the platform it is now buying.