OpenAI reportedly offered Hugging Face $100M before Nvidia’s $13B deal
OpenAI made an early $100 million investment offer to Hugging Face in August, before Nvidia’s $13 billion acquisition was announced on September 3. Sources say the talks included plans for Hugging Face to distribute OpenAI’s custom AI chips, called Jalapeño, developed with Broadcom. The discussions collapsed early, one source said, as Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, reportedly took notice of…
Key points
- OpenAI reportedly offered Hugging Face $100M in August to distribute its Jalapeño chips
- Nvidia’s $13B acquisition of Hugging Face surpasses its $20B Groq deal and $4.5B 2023 investment
- Hugging Face’s open-weight AI models drive demand for its infrastructure and developer tools
Nvidia’s deal, its second-largest ever after the $20 billion Groq acquisition, positions the chipmaker as a dominant player in AI infrastructure. Meanwhile, Hugging Face’s open-weight AI models—cheaper, customizable alternatives to proprietary models—have grown in demand, prompting its CEO, Clément Delangue, to seek Nvidia’s scale. AMD and Salesforce were also reportedly in early talks with Hugging Face before Nvidia won the bid. Delangue called Nvidia ‘a perfect home’ for the company, citing its resources and visibility as critical for open-source AI’s growth.
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CNBC Technology · 28 September 2026
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