Nvidia buys Hugging Face

Name: Nvidia buys Hugging Face
Uploaded: 2026-09-04T06:46:38.437Z
Duration: 48 s
Description: The company that makes the chips just bought the commons. Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for thirteen billion dollars, putting over three million open models and datasets under one vendor.

The Signal · 2026-09-04

The company that makes the chips just bought the commons. Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for thirteen billion dollars, putting over three million open models and datasets under one vendor. Nvidia pledges to stay open and multicloud. The deal closes in 2027, pending review.

Also today: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Google all suffered outages within hours Thursday morning. Correlated failure suggests shared dependencies beneath supposedly independent providers.

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That's today's Signal. Thanks for watching.