OpenAI’s early investment approach sparked bidding for Hugging Face before Nvidia’s $13 billion deal

OpenAI’s early investment approach sparked bidding for Hugging Face before Nvidia’s $13 billion deal

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2026-09-28 19:38:10
Techub News, citing CNBC, reported that open-source platform Hugging Face received multiple acquisition offers before Nvidia agreed to buy the company for about $13 billion. According to the report, OpenAI had made an early investment approach, which then triggered a bidding contest around Hugging Face. The report did not disclose additional terms of the offers, but it identified OpenAI’s move as an early catalyst in the process that preceded Nvidia’s agreement. The development places Hugging Face at the center of a competitive deal sequence involving several rounds of interest before the Nvidia transaction was reached.

Before Nvidia agreed to acquire open-source platform Hugging Face for about $13 billion, the company had received multiple takeover offers, according to a CNBC report cited by Techub News.

The report said OpenAI had made an early investment approach, which then set off a bidding contest for Hugging Face.

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