Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, lifting three French co-founders to $1.8 billion each

Hugging Face’s three French co-founders are each worth about $1.8 billion after Nvidia agreed to acquire the open-model platform in a transaction valued at roughly $13 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is valuing their fortunes for the first time. Clément “Clem” Delangue, 38, Julien Chaumond, 42, and Thomas Wolf, 41, started the company a decade ago with a different product focus; the sale now places all three on the billionaire list as Nvidia takes control of a central hub for open-weight AI.