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[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro

Latent SpaceAugust 27, 20266 min read

Open Source wins!

The Information had the scoop, and now they have the confirmation — Nvidia is buying HuggingFace for $13B, roughly 80x their $150M ARR, having doubled its customer base in 2026. This is almost double Nvidia's initial $7B offer in Jan 2026. What can we say? We love it when the good guys win. But in the backdrop of GLM-5.3-Flash (aka Ox Alpha) impressing everyone (except GDM vaguepoasters) and Qwen also shipping an impressive Flash model on chinese chips, perhaps the post Hot Chips conversation about Western open AI is a great backdrop for this. AI News for 8/25/2026-8/26/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews' website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder,…

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