NVIDIA Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion—with a Unicode Easter Egg

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, a deal whose opening digits—129303—match the decimal code point for the 🤗 emoji. The transaction, announced on September 3, values the open AI platform at $12.93 billion and gives the chipmaker a larger presence across models, datasets, applications and developer tools.