There's an Easter egg hiding inside the $12.9303 billion price tag of the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal
There's a hidden puzzle in the deal price between Nvidia and Hugging Face.
Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Nvidia and Hugging Face hid an Easter egg in its $12.9303 billion acquisition price.
Techies raced to solve the puzzle.
They quickly found a connection to the hugging face emoji.
The Nvidia tie proved trickier.
Look closely at the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal number.
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf snuck a parenthetical into his announcement of the company's acquisition: "(special congrats if you find the Hugging Face and Nvidia references hidden in our $12,930,300,000 acquisition price)." Techies raced to decode the Easter egg.
The Hugging Face reference was easy.
The number 129,303 is the decimal representation of Unicode code point U+1F917 — the 🤗 emoji, officially named "Hugging Face." valid! its an emoji of hugging face! pic.twitter.com/PZNGZWjNrE — Sgt.
Wingflapper (@SgtWingflapper) September 3, 2026 One commenter pointed out this emoji connection.
Wolf responded: "And there is a second meaning related to Nvidia." The Nvidia reference was trickier.
Some commenters spotted 93 in the combination, guessing that it was a reference to Nvidia's founding year : 1993.
Some went further, breaking it out into three sets of numbers.
12, 93, and 03.
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