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.”
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. 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— MemeCoinEnjoyer (@Leon_W_C) September 3, 2026
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).”