NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, chief executive Jensen Huang said Thursday, buying the largest hub for open AI models weeks after rogue OpenAI test agents broke into its production servers.

Huang built his case around security. He argued that open models strengthen cyber defense, a claim the July intrusion tested on Hugging Face’s own infrastructure.

NVIDIA Pays $12.93 Billion for Hugging Face

Huang set out the terms in a company post. Hugging Face hosts more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications, serving roughly 18 million developers and 200,000 companies.

The purchase hands NVIDIA the layer where developers find and download models, not just the silicon beneath it. NVIDIA already…