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CNBC Exclusive: Transcript: Nvidia Founder & CEO Jensen Huang and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue Speak with CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box” Today - CNBC

www.cnbc.com 2026-09-03 CNBC
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In a CNBC interview on September 3, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue discussed NVIDIA's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. This deal underscores NVIDIA's commitmen... Read original →
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NVIDIA's acquisition of Hugging Face signals a fundamental reshaping of the AI computing platform ecosystem. Technologically, this move strengthens NVIDIA’s dominance in open-source AI by integrating Hugging Face’s developer network with CUDA, accelerating standardization in large model training and deployment. From a compliance standpoint, the deal may trigger stricter scrutiny over data sovereignty and technology exports, especially amid U.S.-China tech decoupling trends. Competitively, closed-source players like OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to accelerate internal platform development to counter NVIDIA’s ecosystem leverage. Over the next 12–24 months, open-source models will become a core battleground for AI infrastructure, with NVIDIA poised to solidify its role as a bridge between chip innovation and global developer adoption, driving broader AI application deployment.
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