Hugging Face was acquired by NVIDIA, and the three co-founders each reached a personal net worth of 1.8 billion dollars

According to Bloomberg, after NVIDIA acquired the AI platform Hugging Face for about $13 billion, the three French co-founders—38-year-old Clément Delangue, 42-year-old Julien Chaumond, and 41-year-old Thomas Wolf—each saw their net worth rise to about $1.8 billion, marking their debut on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The deal is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027, and the three co-founders will continue to serve under a six-year retention agreement. NVIDIA has committed that Hugging Face will remain an open platform, allowing users to freely upload and download AI models and datasets. Hugging Face was founded in 2016, initially starting in Paris and now headquartered in Brooklyn.