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  "title": "AI Giant Nvidia to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/ai-giant-nvidia-to-buy-hugging-face-for-12-9-billion",
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  "published": "2026-09-03T12:59:29.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/nvidia-acquires-hugging-face-12-9-billion-1236850349/"
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  "summary": "Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang is making a big new bet on an open-source AI future. On Thursday, Huang announced that Nvidia, a major supplier of hardware to power AI applications, reached a deal to acquire Hugging Face — which operates a platform for building AI open-source models — for $12.93 billion. “Together, we […]",
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        "title": "Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion",
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        "title": "Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal",
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        "outlet": "The Business Times - Companies & Markets",
        "title": "Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for US$13 billion in big bet on open AI models",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/nvidia-to-buy-hugging-face-for-us-13-billion-in-big-bet-on-open-ai-5344201",
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