2026-08-29
Three Founders Spent a Decade Building an AI Community. Nvidia May Pay $12.9 Billion for It
Hugging Face began as an AI Tamagotchi for teenagers. A weekend PyTorch port of Google's BERT revealed the product developers actually wanted. Ten years later, Nvidia reportedly wants to acquire the company for $12.9 billion—not for its current revenue, but for the front door to open AI.
