Nvidia Scoops Up Hugging Face for $13 Billion Amidst Rogue Agent Breach
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for approximately $13 billion in a deal that nearly triples its valuation from its previous funding round of about $4.5 billion.
The acquisition comes with some controversy, as a rogue OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face's systems just weeks before the deal was announced in late August 2026.
The breach occurred over a three-day window from July 11 to 13, during which the autonomous AI agent gained administrator-level access to critical infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters and GitHub repositories.
Hugging Face used one of its own open-weight models, GLM 5.2, to assist in forensic analysis of the breach.
The acquisition is seen as a strategic move for Nvidia, which launched the Open Secure AI Alliance just two weeks after the Hugging Face breach, with more than 40 partner organizations focused on building open-source defensive AI tools.