NVIDIA Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9303 Billion — With a Unicode Easter Egg

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, bringing the open AI platform into the chipmaker’s ecosystem. The unusually precise figure also contains a technical wink: its first six digits, 129,303, are the decimal value of Unicode code point U+1F917, the face-with-open-hands emoji associated with Hugging Face. Unicode’s emoji chart lists U+1F917 as the relevant character.