The deal, marking NVIDIA's increased focus on open-AI models, is likely to draw significant regulatory concern from the EU due to its size and implications for the bloc's digital and AI sovereignty.
By Yaël Ossowski, EU Tech Loop with Euronews
Published on
07/09/2026 - 6:00 GMT+2
On Thursday, American chipmaker NVIDIA announced they will buy the artificial intelligence library Hugging Face for $13 billion (€11.2bn).
It's an astonishing amount of money for a platform that started as an age-appropriate chat app for teenagers, but has since pivoted to being one of the premier databases hosting open-source and open-weight AI models.
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