There's an Easter egg hiding inside the $12.9303 billion price tag of the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal

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 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.

The 12, they said, referenced Nvidia’s $12 IPO price.

Nvidia went public in 1999 at a price of $12 per share.

The stock has skyrocketed, and now trades well over $200.

As for the 03, commenters pointed to Nvidia’s three founders: Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem.

This should be the solution no?129303 = 🤗 emoji unicode 12 / 93 / 03 = NVIDIA’s $12 IPO / 1993 founding / 3 founders 129303 is basically Hugging Face’s hidden easter egg number For all the number-splitting and decoding, it seems like those commenters got it wrong.

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue responded to one commenter with a link to the Official Register of Color Names.

The color code 129303, it turns out, is that vibrant shade of green that looks a whole lot like Nvidia’s classic color. “Oh my god,” the commenter responded. “It was so simple and my gf was right (again).”