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Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $13 Billion

Nvidia is set to acquire AI company Hugging Face in a deal valued at nearly $13 billion.

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Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion. [1] On 2026-09-03 around 17:00, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and nearly all Western AI chatbot services stopped working simultaneously, showing error messages or failing to load responses. [2] Nvidia entered a $20 billion non-exclusive agreement to buy assets from chipmaker Groq in December. [3] The Hugging Face deal marks the second-largest acquisition in Nvidia's history. [4] Downdetector reported that the outage also affected Groq, Elon Musk's AI, and Amazon Web Services, though services began to stabilize as minutes passed. [5] Early versions of the outage report pointed to a problem at one of the large cloud computing service providers as the likely cause of the simultaneous failure. [6] Hugging Face is a leading artificial intelligence company. [7] OpenAI was expected to present its Astra model on 2026-09-03, presumed to be the most advanced to date, though precise performance details were unknown. [8]
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  1. Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion. · bing.com
  2. On 2026-09-03 around 17:00, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and nearly all Western AI chatbot services stopped working simultaneously, showing error messages or failing to load responses. · El Mundo
  3. Nvidia entered a $20 billion non-exclusive agreement to buy assets from chipmaker Groq in December. · bing.com
  4. The Hugging Face deal marks the second-largest acquisition in Nvidia's history. · bing.com
  5. Downdetector reported that the outage also affected Groq, Elon Musk's AI, and Amazon Web Services, though services began to stabilize as minutes passed. · El Mundo
  6. Early versions of the outage report pointed to a problem at one of the large cloud computing service providers as the likely cause of the simultaneous failure. · El Mundo
  7. Hugging Face is a leading artificial intelligence company. · bing.com
  8. OpenAI was expected to present its Astra model on 2026-09-03, presumed to be the most advanced to date, though precise performance details were unknown. · El Mundo
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