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NVIDIA Acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion

NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face in a $12.93 billion deal to strengthen its open AI infrastructure.

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NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. [1] The confirmed deal involves a valuation of nearly $13 billion for Hugging Face. [2] Nvidia's equity investments reached $99 billion, a tenfold increase over the past year, according to the article. [3] QumulusAI announced on 2026-09-04 that it completed deployment of 616 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs for Runpod under two reserved-capacity agreements combining one- and two-year terms. [4] Nvidia has become a leading global strategic tech backer, according to the article. [5] All 77 GPU nodes under the agreements are now active. [6] Full deployment was reached in August 2026, ahead of the original Sept. 1, 2026 target. [7] Runpod will offer the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell capacity to its customers for production AI inference and agentic workloads. [8]
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  1. NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. · bing.com
  2. The confirmed deal involves a valuation of nearly $13 billion for Hugging Face. · bing.com
  3. Nvidia's equity investments reached $99 billion, a tenfold increase over the past year, according to the article. · techmeme.com
  4. QumulusAI announced on 2026-09-04 that it completed deployment of 616 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs for Runpod under two reserved-capacity agreements combining one- and two-year terms. · AIwire
  5. Nvidia has become a leading global strategic tech backer, according to the article. · techmeme.com
  6. All 77 GPU nodes under the agreements are now active. · AIwire
  7. Full deployment was reached in August 2026, ahead of the original Sept. 1, 2026 target. · AIwire
  8. Runpod will offer the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell capacity to its customers for production AI inference and agentic workloads. · AIwire
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