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Jensen Huang's post "NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face" is dated September 3, 2026 and timestamped 2026-09-03T11:56:49Z ("I'm excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face"); NVIDIA's 8-K says the definitive agreement itself was signed on September 2, 2026.
NVIDIA's[1] own filing: on September 2, 2026 it entered a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face, Inc., with an approximately $11.9 billion purchase price payable to stockholders plus an equity retention program of up to approximately $1.0 billion, closing expected in the first half of 2027 subject to regulatory approvals, and a commitment to keep the platform open to other silicon vendors.
Same-day CNBC[6] report with interviews of Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue on Squawk Box: Delangue approached Huang over the summer and talks moved fast; NVIDIA's[1] second-biggest deal after the $20 billion Groq asset purchase and ahead of Mellanox.
Independent coverage of the confirmation: $12.93 billion, platform scale, Huang's open-platform pledge, and Hugging Face's funding history (over $395 million raised, a $235 million 2023 round that included Nvidia[1]).
Independent trade coverage of the announcement and its terms; repeats that the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approval.[1]
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