{"id":1033355,"date":"2026-09-05T08:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033355"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:29:06","slug":"nvidia-to-snap-up-hugging-face-for-12-9-bn-open-source-win-or-antitrust-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/05\/nvidia-to-snap-up-hugging-face-for-12-9-bn-open-source-win-or-antitrust-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia to snap up Hugging Face for $12.9 bn: Open-source win or antitrust risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia on Thursday, September 3, confirmed that it has entered into a formal agreement to acquire Hugging Face \u2013 one of the most popular platforms for developers and researchers to share, find, test, and deploy open-weight AI models \u2013 for over $12.9 billion. <\/p>\n<p>It was officially last valued at $4.5 billion, on the heels of a funding round in 2023 that Nvidia participated in. The acquisition underscores Nvidia\u2019s growing AI power across the industry and is likely to raise eyebrows among rivals and regulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia on Thursday, September 3, confirmed that it has entered into a formal agreement to acquire Hugging Face \u2013 one of the most popular platforms for developers and researchers to share, find, test, and deploy open-weight AI models \u2013 for over $12.9 billion. It was officially last valued at $4.5 billion, on the heels of a funding round in 2023 that Nvidia participated in. The acquisition underscores Nvidia\u2019s growing AI power across the industry and is likely to raise eyebrows among rivals and regulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033382,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033355\/revisions\/1033382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}