Model Mayhem, NVIDIA x Hugging Face Deal, GPT-6 Astra | Pablo Torre, Mohit Aron, Akshay Narisetti, Hari Ravichandran, Matt Caldwell & Jordy Leiser, Jeff Thornburg, Charlie O’Neill, Sridhar Ramaswamy

NVIDIA announced on September 3, 2026 that it had agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.93 billion. Hugging Face is a platform where developers share, evaluate and adapt AI models, allowing businesses to build on existing models without training everything from scratch. NVIDIA said it intended to expand the platform and strengthen its infrastructure. Primary announcement.

One question for developers is whether they can keep choosing where their AI runs. NVIDIA says Hugging Face will continue supporting multiple clouds and hardware providers, and that NVIDIA computing hardware will not be required to build on or deploy through the platform. These are NVIDIA's stated commitments; the announcement does not establish that they will be delivered, and it does not show the acquisition has completed. NVIDIA’s commitments.

This is background for the NVIDIA/Hugging Face chapter listed at 13:12 in the episode description. The description gives only the chapter title and does not explain the hosts’ discussion, so nothing above should be read as what was said in the episode. The related Intel entry on the announcement carries the transaction source.