Nvidia said on Thursday (3) Hugging Face will remain open to models, clouds, and chips from other vendors after the completion of its acquisition for approximately US$ 12.9 billionThe promise was highlighted by Jensen Huang when he officially announced the deal, which still depends on regulatory approvals.
According to the company, developers will not need to use Nvidia hardware to create or deploy projects through Hugging Face. The platform will also continue to offer support for open source and open-weight models from different developers, as well as multicloud environments and competing accelerators.
The commitment is relevant because Hugging Face has become one of the main infrastructures of the open AI ecosystem. More than 18 million developers, researchers, and creators use the service, which brings together more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million applications. More than 200,000 companies also use the platform.
Nvidia itself already holds a significant position in this ecosystem. The manufacturer says it is the largest contributor of open models and open datasets to Hugging Face, with more than 500 models and 250 datasets published on the platform.
Hugging Face will continue accepting competing chips
The neutrality commitment is also included in the document presented by Nvidia to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company says that Hugging Face will continue to allow users to choose which models and datasets they wish to make available and that it will maintain support for other chip manufacturers.
The promise places a sensitive point at the center of the deal. With the acquisition, the largest supplier of artificial intelligence accelerators will, if the deal is completed, come to control a platform used to distribute and run models that can also run on competitors' hardware.
The deal provides for approximately US$ 11.9 billion allocated to Hugging Face shareholders and a stock retention program of up to US$ 1 billion for employees who join Nvidia. The closing is expected for the first half of 2027, subject to customary conditions and necessary regulatory approvals.
