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

Look intimately astatine 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 successful 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 practice of Unicode codification constituent U+1F917 — the 🤗 emoji, officially named "Hugging Face."

One commenter pointed retired this emoji connection. Wolf responded: "And location is simply a 2nd meaning related to Nvidia."

The Nvidia reference was trickier. Some commenters spotted 93 successful the combination, guessing that it was a reference to Nvidia's founding year: 1993.

Some went further, breaking it retired into 3 sets of numbers. 12, 93, and 03. The 12, they said, referenced Nvidia's $12 IPO price. Nvidia went nationalist successful 1999 astatine a value of $12 per share. The banal has skyrocketed, and now trades good complete $200.

As for the 03, commenters pointed to Nvidia's 3 founders: Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem.

For each the number-splitting and decoding, it seems for illustration those commenters sewage it wrong. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue responded to 1 commenter pinch a nexus to the Official Register of Color Names.

The colour codification 129303, it turns out, is that vibrant shadiness of greenish that looks a full batch for illustration Nvidia's classical color.

"Oh my god," the commenter responded. "It was truthful elemental and my gf was correct (again)."