NVIDIA × Hugging Face — $12.9B Acquisition Announced at the HF All Hands (Sep 3 2026)

NVIDIA × Hugging Face — $12.9B Acquisition Announced at the HF All Hands (Sep 3 2026)

Open-platform commitment · up to $1B retention pool · H1 2027 close · antitrust runway · GPU-neutrality watch

📍 New York, USA · 📅 2026-09-03 · Hugging Face All Hands (remote-first, ~160 participants) (US)

73 OSINT-mapped profiles. New York, September 3 2026 (remote-first All Hands, ~160 participants). Hugging Face All Hands where NVIDIA's ~$12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face was announced — $11.9B to HF shareholders plus up to $1B in equity retention for HF employees joining NVIDIA; HF to 'remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem' (Jensen Huang blog); expected close H1 2027 pending regulatory approvals. NVIDIA's 2nd-largest deal after the ~$20B Groq assets purchase (Dec 2025) and its largest outright acquisition, eclipsing Mellanox (~$6.9B, 2020). Clément Delangue told CNBC he approached Huang over the summer. Aleksei Dolgikh (@alexdolbun, UnicornsMap.com founder) was live on the All Hands when it was announced — first-hand event provenance. Radar watch: antitrust runway (US/EU), GPU-neutrality of the Hub, open-weights distribution for Meta/Mistral/DeepSeek. Currencies USD/EUR/USDC. Locales en/fr/de/es + the 20-language $UM-Radar SSR layer.

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Real public venue coordinate · Hugging Face All Hands (remote-first, ~160 participants), New York, USA · 40.7128, -74.006 — real OpenStreetMap tiles (no AI / diffusion imagery).

🧑 Public Agenda Speakers (OSINT-verified, confidence HIGH)

Clément DelangueCo-founder & CEOHugging Face
Jensen HuangFounder & CEONVIDIA
Thomas WolfCo-founder & Chief Science OfficerHugging Face
Julien ChaumondCo-founder & CTOHugging Face
Jeff BoudierHead of Product & GrowthHugging Face
Brigitte TousignantHead of CommunicationsHugging Face
Arthur ZuckerHead of TransformersHugging Face
Quentin LhoestML Engineer — 🤗 Datasets maintainerHugging Face
Apolinário PassosHead of ML for Art and CreativityHugging Face
Andrés MarafiotiML Researcher — open training dataHugging Face
Alejandro AODeveloper AdvocateHugging Face
Remy TrompierPrincipal Cloud ArchitectHugging Face
Stevie TordjmannNamed on the call (role UNVERIFIED)Hugging Face
Juan Julián Cea MoránCloud ML EngineerHugging Face
Matthieu LapeyreCo-founder & CEO, Pollen Robotics (HF)Hugging Face
Hugging FaceAcquisition target — ~$12.9BCompany
NVIDIAAcquirer — NASDAQ: NVDACompany
Georgi GerganovAuthor of llama.cpp and ggmlHugging Face
Abubakar AbidCo-founder of GradioHugging Face
Margaret MitchellAI ethics researcher & professorHugging Face
Colin RaffelAuthor of T5 and MagentaHugging Face
Irene SolaimanAI-policy leaderHugging Face
Clémentine FourrierResearch EngineerHugging Face
Lysandre DebutOriginal author of the 🤗 Transformers libraryHugging Face
Lewis TunstallCo-author of 'NLP with Transformers'Hugging Face
Leandro von WerraCo-author of 🤗 Datasets and 'NLP with Transformers'Hugging Face
Yacine JerniteCo-author of DataCardsHugging Face
Di XiaoOriginal author of 🤗 TRL (RLHF training library)Hugging Face
Tarek ZiadéPython core developerHugging Face
AK (akhaliq)Curator of 🤗 Daily PapersHugging Face
Adrien CarreiraHead of Computer VisionHugging Face
Lucie-Aimée KaffeeResearch ScientistHugging Face
Joel NiklausResearch EngineerHugging Face
Anna TordjmannHugging Face team (public org directoryHugging Face
Merve NoyanML Engineer (ex-Trendyol)Hugging Face
Sayak PaulML Engineer (ex-Paperspace)Hugging Face
Pedro CuencaML Engineer (ex-Google Keras/TensorFlow)Hugging Face
Niels RoggeVision ML EngineerHugging Face
Daniel van StrienML EngineerHugging Face
Kashif RasulML EngineerHugging Face
Anton LozhkovCo-author of FineWebHugging Face
Loubna Ben AllalCo-author of FineWeb & Arabic LLM initiativesHugging Face
Nouamane TaziSearch & retrieval engineering lead (ex-Quotient)Hugging Face
Albert Villanova del MoralML EngineerHugging Face
Elie BakouchResearch EngineerHugging Face
Cyril VallezQuantization leadHugging Face
Álvaro SomozaML EngineerHugging Face
Ferdinand MomAudio ML Engineer (ex-Speechmatics)Hugging Face
Antun SkurićAudio ML Engineer (ex-Speechmatics)Hugging Face
Zach NationAudio ML Engineer (ex-Clarifai)Hugging Face
Matthew CarriganTraining-library maintainer (ex-Keras)Hugging Face
Yih-Dar ShiehTransformers CI & test-infrastructure engineerHugging Face
Lucain PougetHub CLI & auth engineerHugging Face
Quentin GallouédecTRL / RLHF & Liger-kernel engineerHugging Face
Aritra Roy GosthipatyML engineerHugging Face
Edward BeechingResearcherHugging Face
Thibault GoehringerGradio core maintainerHugging Face
Morgan FuntowiczCo-founder, Pollen Robotics (ReachyHugging Face
Pierric CistacCo-founder, Pollen RoboticsHugging Face
Victor MustarCo-founder, Pollen RoboticsHugging Face
Charles BensimonCo-founder of OwkinHugging Face
Sylvain LesageOpen-data & civic-tech engineer (co-founder, Open Knowledge France)Hugging Face
Steven LiuCourse authorHugging Face
Simon BrandeisML Course co-authorHugging Face
Mishig DavaadorjML Engineer (ex-Twitter/Meta)Hugging Face
Harry MellorML EngineerHugging Face
Tom AarsenOpen-source maintainerHugging Face
David HoltzData scientist (ex-Mozilla)Hugging Face
Linoy TsabanResearcher (ex-IBM Research)Hugging Face
Raushan TurganbayML EngineerHugging Face
Eric BezzamAudio research engineer (CNRS PhD)Hugging Face
Avijit GhoshLLM Course co-authorHugging Face
Charlie BoyerML engineerHugging Face
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