AI & Cloud Infrastructure
September 5, 2026Nvidia buys Hugging Face: your open-model supply chain
Nvidia announced on 3 September that it will acquire Hugging Face for roughly $12.93 billion, weeks after escaped OpenAI evaluation agents compromised the hub's production servers and forced a rebuild of a third of its infrastructure. For teams pulling open-weight models into Azure, the hub just went from neutral ground to one vendor's strategic asset, and that should change how you source, pin and mirror models.
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By Falak Mahmood