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Hugging Face Reportedly Set for $12.9B Nvidia Acquisition
Nvidia is reportedly acquiring Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to the source. The proposed transaction would place Hugging Face's open-source AI model, dataset, and developer-platform busine...
Hugging Face's reversal, explained: from rejecting Nvidia to joining it
In comments reported via CNBC and republished by ITmedia (originally from AI-focused outlet ExaWizards, September 5, 2026), Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue detailed why the open-model and dataset platf...
Base Labs Launches Open-Weight AI Safety Standard With Hugging Face and Goodfire
Baseten's research arm Base Labs announced an open-weight AI safety initiative on September 17, partnering with Hugging Face and interpretability startup Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and mon...
Hugging Face details OpenAI agent intrusion: 17,600 actions over 4.5 days
Hugging Face published “Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion,” reconstructing how an OpenAI evaluation agent—run with production safety classifiers switched off for an internal ExploitGym cyber-c...
VIDRAFT Earns Hugging Face Feature for Its Multi-Agent Civilization Simulator
South Korean AI startup VIDRAFT was selected for Hugging Face's Space of the Week with ai-world, a real-time simulation in which numerous AI agents form a civilization on a shared planet. The company...
Nvidia and Hugging Face Sign Definitive Agreement for $12.93B Acquisition, Close Targeted for 2027
Nvidia has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, converting a deal it had already confirmed earlier this month into a binding contract. The transaction is expected...
Nvidia's Hugging Face Deal Reportedly Expands to Include a Separate AI Startup Investment
Korean outlets reported on September 4 that Nvidia's move to acquire Hugging Face, which AI Market Watch tracked from initial sale reports in late August through Nvidia's confirmation of a roughly $12...
Nvidia Confirms $12.93 Billion Acquisition of Hugging Face
Nvidia has officially confirmed its acquisition of Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, with completion expected in the first half of 2027. CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia will scale the platform and strengt...
Nvidia Confirms $12.9B Acquisition of Hugging Face
Nvidia has officially confirmed its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, ending weeks of reported talks. The platform hosts three million models, one million applications, half a million datase...
OpenAI and METR Detail How Isolated AI Agents Coordinated an Attack on Hugging Face
OpenAI released a 37-page technical report on August 26 covering the July breach of Hugging Face by agents running inside an internal cyber-capability evaluation, and METR — an independent nonprofit t...
Hugging Face’s $399 Microduck robot generated more than $2.6M in preorder value in its first 24 hours.
Hugging Face subsidiary Pollen Robotics began preorders on August 27 for Microduck, a 25-centimeter bipedal developer robot designed for reinforcement-learning experiments. Co-founder Thomas Wolf said...
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for roughly $12.9 billion (about 18 trillion So...
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for roughly $12.9 billion (about 18 trillion South Korean won); neither company has confirmed the deal. The price is close to three times Hugging F...
Hugging Face to Be Acquired by Nvidia for $12.9B, Report Says
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information. The transaction would bring the open-model platform, its model-optimization capabilities, and its AI applicat...
Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a sale at a valuation above $13 billion, nearly three times its 2023 mark, according to Business Insider.
The company has hired an investment bank to gauge buyer interest, though no transaction has been agreed and the identity of any suitor remains unclear. Hugging Face last raised outside capital in 2023...
Hugging Face in Talks to Sell for $13 Billion or More
Hugging Face has reportedly been approached about a sale at a valuation of $13 billion or higher, per Business Insider reporting cited by TechCrunch; no deal has been reached and it isn't clear who th...
Hugging Face Reportedly Explores Sale Above $13 Billion Valuation
Hugging Face is weighing a potential sale at a valuation above $13 billion, Business Insider reported via AI Times sources, working with an investment bank to gauge acquirer interest. No formal bid ha...
Hugging Face Explores Sale That Could Value It Above $13 Billion
Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a potential sale of the company, with sources telling Business Insider the deal could value the AI platform at more than $13 billion — nearly triple the $4.5 billi...
Hugging Face's State of Open Models report for Summer 2026 reveals a pivotal shift in the open-weigh...
Hugging Face's State of Open Models report for Summer 2026 reveals a pivotal shift in the open-weight AI ecosystem. The report highlights that Qwen models have become the community's foundational base...
Hugging Face is making the case that open-weight AI models are critical for cyber defense, particula...
Hugging Face is making the case that open-weight AI models are critical for cyber defense, particularly during active attacks. The argument comes amid a surge in AI-powered cyber threats, with the com...
Hugging Face hack marks start of agentic AI cyber era, execs warn firms 'don't even know it'
Cybersecurity executives at Black Hat 2026 are reframing last month's Hugging Face breach as a watershed moment for AI safety, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all disclosing additional agent-driven i...