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Reviewed 19 October 2026. Dates retain the precision of the source; retrospective disclosures are identified in the event. No ARR is inferred from model counts, financing or valuation. The NVIDIA transaction is recorded as announced.
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NVIDIA announces a $12.93B acquisition
The reported agreement concerns the purchase of Hugging Face. An announced acquisition is not treated as a completed transaction.
Source: AxiosReported annualized revenue reaches $150M
The Information reports the August milestone; this is an annualized measure.
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Acquires Pollen Robotics
The acquisition adds open-hardware robotics to LeRobot and the Hub. The company identifies this as its fifth acquisition.
Source: Hugging FaceLaunches the LeRobot effort
Hugging Face begins its open robotics library, connecting robot datasets, policies and hardware workflows.
Source: Hugging Face retrospective$235M Series D at $4.5B valuation
A Salesforce-led round includes major technology investors. The valuation is a financing measure, not annual recurring revenue.
Source: CB InsightsRaises $100M Series C
Lux leads the round, supporting open-source research, the Hub and enterprise products.
Source: Hugging FaceRaises $40M Series B
Addition leads the financing for the machine-learning library and platform.
Source: TechCrunchAnnounces Transformers v4
The Transformers library moves to its fourth major version.
Source: Hugging FacePublishes Transformers research
The Hugging Face team describes its open-source library for pretrained language models.
Source: Hugging FaceOpen-sources PyTorch BERT
The library work becomes an important foundation for the later Transformers ecosystem and collaborative model platform.
Source: Hugging Face retrospective
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