US antitrust regulators are examining Nvidia's acquisitions, investments, and sales practices, according to two sources cited by Reuters.
The US Justice Department is looking into Nvidia's planned acquisition of Hugging Face, the open-source platform. Department officials are asking whether the purchase could give Nvidia control over a key hub for distributing AI and hurt competitors. The deal is worth $12.93 billion. Nvidia expects it to close in the first half of 2027. Nvidia says Hugging Face will keep supporting partnerships with a range of chip, cloud, and AI providers.
The inquiry extends beyond Hugging Face. The sources say officials have also looked at Nvidia's acquisitions of SchedMD and Run:ai and its licensing deal with Groq. They are also checking whether Nvidia offered customers more AI chips if they also bought Nvidia networking gear and Groq processors. The probe began under Joe Biden and has continued under Donald Trump.
Europe is also reviewing Nvidia. France's competition authority is investigating the company over alleged anticompetitive business practices. The regulator has raised concerns about the industry's dependence on Nvidia's CUDA programming software and