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Hugging Face
AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus
Being acquired by NVIDIA
The hub for open models. NVIDIA agreed to buy it for $12.9B in September; the DOJ is reviewing the deal, with close expected in H1 2027.
What it offers
Main offerings
- Hub
- 3M models and 18M+ developers.
- Inference and Spaces
- Hosted demos and endpoints.
Recent news
- DOJ scrutinises NVIDIA's $12.9B Hugging Face dealAntitrust review could delay or reshape the deal; close expected in H1 2027.CNBC ↗
- Safety group sues OpenAI over its agents' July breach of Hugging FaceKeeps the incident, a Senate probe and the pending NVIDIA deal under scrutiny.ABC News ↗
- NVIDIA confirms $12.9B deal to buy Hugging FaceThe main open-model hub moves under NVIDIA, which promises it stays open to every labTechCrunch ↗
- Hugging Face goes from emoji-named startup to $13B acquisitionNearly three times its 2023 valuation; the hub has 3M models and 18M developersFortune ↗
- Hugging Face report finds Chinese labs lead open models and agents use the HubQwen leads on derivatives, and Claude Code accounts for 44% of agent traffic to the HubHugging Face ↗
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