AI Magazine October 2026 Issue 51 | Page 14

THE MONTH IN AI

This month’ s stories include NVIDIA’ s acquisition of Hugging Face, Anthropic’ s work with Salesforce and OpenAI’ s cybersecurity letter
WRITTEN BY: ADAM POND
NVIDIA TO ACQUIRE HUGGING FACE IN US $ 13BN DEAL
NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for an eye-watering US $ 12,930,300,000. Hugging Face will continue to support opensource and open-weight models from across the ecosystem, from every model builder, NVIDIA highlighted.
Jensen Huang
President and CEO NVIDIA