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Marvell agreed on 2 November 2026 to buy optical chip and networking equipment maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at $115 billion including debt, one of the largest technology acquisitions on record.
On 3 September 2026 Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face said it would remain an open platform, and the deal was expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval.
On 20 February 2026, ggml.ai — the founding team of llama.cpp — joined Hugging Face, which is to provide long-term resources while ggml and llama.cpp stay 100% open source and community-run.
On 3 December 2025 Anthropic said Claude Code had reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue, and agreed to acquire Bun, a JavaScript runtime that had already worked with Anthropic on Claude Code's native installer.
On 12 August 2025 the AI startup Perplexity made a $34.5 billion all-cash bid to buy Google's Chrome browser, presenting the sale as a remedy for Google's antitrust litigation and pledging to keep Chromium open source.
Salesforce agreed in May 2025 to buy data-management company Informatica for about $8 billion, folding its catalog, integration and governance products into Salesforce's platform for agentic AI. The deal closed on 18 November 2025.
On 21 May 2025 OpenAI announced it was acquiring io, the AI hardware startup founded by designer Jony Ive, in an all-stock deal valuing io at about $6.5 billion and putting Ive in charge of OpenAI's hardware and design work.
On 28 March 2025 Elon Musk announced that his AI company xAI had acquired X Corp., the owner of the X social network, in an all-stock deal that valued X at $33 billion and xAI at $80 billion.
On 18 January 2025, Perplexity submitted a bid to merge with TikTok's US business, proposing a combined entity rather than an acquisition in an attempt to work around ByteDance's refusal to sell, one day before a US ban was due to take effect.
On 8 August 2024 Hugging Face announced it had acquired XetHub, a Seattle startup whose technology lets Git scale to terabyte-sized repositories by chunking and deduplicating data; Hugging Face planned to move the Hub off Git LFS onto a Xet-based backend.
On 21 December 2021 Hugging Face acquired Gradio, a Python library for building web demos of machine-learning models that Abubakar Abid had started in 2019 and that had been used to build more than 300,000 demos.
In April 2010 Apple bought Siri, a San Jose start-up whose app answered spoken requests on the iPhone; the deal, reported by The New York Times, put voice-driven assistance on the path to becoming a built-in phone feature.
