Nvidia acquires Hugging Face in push for open-source technology
The technology giant Nvidia will acquire the open-source platform Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion as part of the company’s push for open artificial intelligence systems. In an announcement Thursday, Nvidia said it will pay $12.93 billion for Hugging Face’s platform, which hosts more than 3 million models and 500,000 datasets used by hundreds of…
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Summary based on reporting from The Verge, The Hill, ABC News and TechCrunch.
Coverage at a glance
- First observed by CurrentWire: The Verge · Sep 3, 2026 at 8:12 AM ET
- Coverage span: 1h 45m
- Coverage: 5 reports from 4 independent publications
- Coverage growth: 1 → 4 publications in 29 min
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All-time coverage
5 publications have covered this story since CurrentWire first saw it: Variety, TechCrunch, ABC News, The Verge, The Hill.
Corroborated details
Details appearing in reports from multiple independent sources:
- “$13 billion” — The Hill, ABC News, The Verge
- “$12.93 billion” — The Hill, ABC News, The Verge
- “3 million” — The Hill, TechCrunch
Coverage
5 reports from 4 publications.
Excerpts are the summaries each publisher distributes with its own feed, shortened and attributed.
The HillTier B
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face in push for open-source technology(opens original report in a new tab)ABC NewsTier B
Nvidia to spend $13 billion on Hugging Face, leaving it as an open source platform(opens original report in a new tab)Nvidia is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — ABC News
ABC NewsTier B
Nvidia buying artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $13 billion(opens original report in a new tab)Nvidia is buying artificial intelligence software platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — ABC News
TechCrunchTier B
Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion(opens original report in a new tab)Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers. — TechCrunch
The VergeTier B
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion(opens original report in a new tab)Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools under the ownership of the world's biggest AI chipmaker.… — The Verge
How coverage developed
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Signal breakdown
CurrentWire ranked this story 80.3 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.
- Freshness
- 34.9 of 35
- Source authority
- 14 of 20
- Coverage breadth
- 12.9 of 20
- Geographic relevance
- 3.5 of 10
- Story prominence
- 10 of 10
- Velocity
- 5 of 5
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