Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
In early November 2026 Meta acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel workspaces. Conductor's cloud service was set to shut down on 20 November 2026.
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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
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.
ggml.ai, the team behind llama.cpp, joins Hugging Face
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.
Claude Code reaches $1B run-rate; Anthropic acquires Bun
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.
Hugging Face acquires humanoid-robot maker Pollen Robotics
On 14 April 2025 Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux maker of the Reachy 2 humanoid robot, in the AI company's first move into hardware; the price was not disclosed.
Hugging Face acquires XetHub to rebuild Hub storage
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.
Hugging Face acquires Gradio
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.