{"id":376211,"date":"2026-08-28T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=376211"},"modified":"2026-08-28T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:20:07","slug":"nvidia-reportedly-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-kevin-durants-stake-could-top-60-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/nvidia-reportedly-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-kevin-durants-stake-could-top-60-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face: Kevin Durant\u2019s stake could top $60 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the AI developer platform, for about $12.9 billion. If the deal actually goes through, reports say Kevin Durant\u2019s $250,000 investment<\/strong> could end up being worth more than $60 million.<\/p>\n

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Durant made the investment through Thirty Five Ventures alongside Rich Kleiman, putting $100,000<\/strong> into Hugging Face\u2019s 2018 seed round and another $150,000 into its 2019 Series A. That was well before Hugging Face went from a teen chatbot app to something closer to a GitHub<\/a> for AI, with millions of machine-learning models and datasets hosted on the platform.<\/p>\n\n

The more interesting part is why Nvidia wants it. Hugging Face sits right in the middle of how developers find models, share them, fine-tune them, and put them into use, which would give Nvidia a much deeper foothold beyond chips<\/strong> and cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n

There\u2019s a catch, though. Hugging Face works across hardware from Nvidia, AMD, Google, and Intel, and some analysts have raised questions about whether it could stay neutral<\/strong> under Nvidia ownership, or whether that would clash with Hugging Face\u2019s open-source culture.<\/p>\n\n

The reported price is a huge leap<\/strong> from Hugging Face\u2019s $4.5 billion valuation in 2023 and its roughly $150 million in annualized revenue. Reports also say the company previously turned down a $500 million investment from Nvidia at a $7 billion valuation, and that Microsoft had shown interest too.<\/p>\n\n

If you follow AI or startup investing, this one deserves attention<\/strong>. But for now, neither Nvidia nor Hugging Face has confirmed the deal, and the claims that European employees got less equity still haven\u2019t been backed up.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the AI developer platform, for about $12.9 billion. If the deal actually goes through, reports say Kevin Durant\u2019s $250,000 investment could end up being worth more than $60 million. Durant made the investment through Thirty Five Ventures alongside Rich Kleiman, putting $100,000 into Hugging Face\u2019s 2018 seed … Continue reading “Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face: Kevin Durant\u2019s stake could top $60 million”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9325,"featured_media":376210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-376211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376213,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376211\/revisions\/376213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376211"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=376211"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=376211"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=376211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}