{"id":4967,"date":"2026-09-07T00:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/nvidias-hugging-face-deal-could-pressure-openai\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T00:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:43:56","slug":"nvidias-hugging-face-deal-could-pressure-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/nvidias-hugging-face-deal-could-pressure-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia\u2019s Hugging Face Deal Could Pressure OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/MvWqWCmnAvQ\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This creates opportunity for Nvidia but HURTS OpenAI, expert says\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MvWqWCmnAvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> SANTA CLARA, CA \u2013 September 6, 2026 (STL.News) Nvidia\u2018s (Ticker: NVDA) nearly $13 billion agreement to acquire Hugging Face could represent much more than another major artificial intelligence acquisition. The transaction potentially strengthens Nvidia\u2019s position at the center of the rapidly expanding open-model AI ecosystem while creating additional competitive pressure for companies such as OpenAI that depend heavily on proprietary models and paid access to them. NVDA announced Sept. 3 that it agreed to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion, one of the semiconductor giant\u2019s largest acquisitions and a significant endorsement of open-source and open-weight artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/nvidias-hugging-face-deal-could-pressure-openai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA CLARA, CA \u2013 September 6, 2026 (STL.News) Nvidia\u2018s (Ticker: NVDA) nearly $13 billion agreement to acquire Hugging Face could represent much more than another major artificial intelligence acquisition. The transaction potentially strengthens Nvidia\u2019s position at the center of the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}