US antitrust regulators are scrutinizing Nvidia's Hugging Face deal and sales practices

The US Justice Department is examining whether Nvidia's planned $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face could give it control over a key AI distribution hub and harm competitors, with Nvidia expecting the deal to close in the first half of 2027. Regulators are also investigating Nvidia's acquisitions of SchedMD and Run:ai, its licensing deal with Groq, and whether it offered customers more AI chips in exchange for buying Nvidia networking gear and Groq processors. France's competition authority is separately investigating alleged anticompetitive practices, citing concerns about dependence on CUDA and Nvidia's stakes in cloud providers like CoreWeave.