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04 Sep 2026, 6:15 AM	The Register	7.5	Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands Nvidia announced a $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face, expected to close next year pending regulatory approval. The Register argues this is an antitrust problem because Hugging Face is the de facto model repository for the AI ecosystem—where nearly all open-weights models are distributed—and Nvidia owning it is like an automaker owning both the fuel supply and mechanic training. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue framed the deal as a way to grow from ~18M users to 100M+. Why: If you ship AI products that depend on Hugging Face for model hosting, downloads, or the transformers library, start mapping your dependencies and evaluating alternatives (e.g., self-hosting model weights, Ollama, or direct GitHub releases) before the deal closes. The practical risk is not immediate shutdown but gradual platform bias toward Nvidia's hardware stack and CUDA ecosystem, which could affect model discoverability, inference tooling defaults, and pricing for non-Nvidia infrastructure users. hugging-face nvidia acquisition antitrust model-hosting open-source

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04 Sep 2026, 6:15 AM

The Register

7.5

Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands

Nvidia announced a $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face, expected to close next year pending regulatory approval. The Register argues this is an antitrust problem because Hugging Face is the de facto model repository for the AI ecosystem—where nearly all open-weights models are distributed—and Nvidia owning it is like an automaker owning both the fuel supply and mechanic training. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue framed the deal as a way to grow from ~18M users to 100M+.

Why: If you ship AI products that depend on Hugging Face for model hosting, downloads, or the transformers library, start mapping your dependencies and evaluating alternatives (e.g., self-hosting model weights, Ollama, or direct GitHub releases) before the deal closes. The practical risk is not immediate shutdown but gradual platform bias toward Nvidia's hardware stack and CUDA ecosystem, which could affect model discoverability, inference tooling defaults, and pricing for non-Nvidia infrastructure users.