On September 3, 2026, NVIDIA announced that it has agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. Together, NVIDIA and Hugging Face plan to scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Hugging Face on the transaction.

As the opportunity for open models accelerates, Hugging Face can serve the global AI community at unprecedented scale. NVIDIA’s infrastructure, engineering and global reach can help improve platform reliability, safety, model evaluation, inference, and deployment capabilities, while preserving the open ecosystem that made Hugging Face foundational.

The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Hugging Face on the transaction was led by Marty Korman, Rich Mullen, Mark Holloway, and Brian Chan. The team also includes:

Mergers & Acquisitions
Zheng Zhou
Drew Downing

Technology Transactions
Christopher Paniewski
Riley Lovendale
Brittany Von Rueden
Erica Hur
Anna Weber
Jennifer Cheng

Privacy and Cybersecurity
Matthew Staples
Michael O'Brien
Dan Shin
Alice Han

Tax
Myra Sutanto Shen
Anjali Krishnan
Ryan Wong

Employee Benefits and Compensation
Brandon Gantus
Jessica Bliss

Employment Law
Matt Gorman
Erin Wong

Antitrust and Competition
Jamillia Ferris
Matt McDonald
Deirdre Carroll
Michelle Hale
Robin Crauthers
Andrew Morrison
Kimberley Biagioli

National Security and Trade
Joshua Gruenspecht
Jahna Hartwig
Seth Cowell
Waqas Shahid
Nate Yang

Real Estate
James McCann
Paige Baker

Environmental
Catherine Johnson

For more information, please see NVIDIA’s blog post. Additional coverage can be found on The New York Times and Bloomberg.