{"id":882416,"date":"2026-09-06T19:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882416\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:26:21","slug":"hugging-faces-nerdy-trio-become-billionaires-in-nvidia-takeover-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882416\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugging Face\u2019s \u2018nerdy\u2019 trio become billionaires in Nvidia takeover deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York | Hugging Face\u2019s three French founders have emerged as billionaires after the artificial intelligence platform agreed to be acquired by Nvidia, a decade after they started the company with an entirely different focus.<\/p>\n<p>Clement Delangue, 38, Julien Chaumond, 42, and Thomas Wolf, 41, will each have a net worth of about $US1.8 billion ($2.5 billion), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Nvidia agreed to buy the start-up in a transaction valued at roughly $US13 billion ($18 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York | Hugging Face\u2019s three French founders have emerged as billionaires after the artificial intelligence platform agreed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-882416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}