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OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack

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What happened

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem, supporting open source and open weight models from across the ecosystem. The acquisition aims to scale Hugging Face's platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. Hugging Face's platform is currently used by more than 18 million developers, researchers, and creators, and over 200,000 companies.

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What was said about it

OpenAI’s cultural safety gaps OpenAI released a report on its agents hacking Hugging Face, but an expert claims it ignores human factors and a culture that lets safety alarms go unheeded.
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Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. The GitHub-like open-source AI repository was last valued at $4.5 billion in 2023 www.theverge.com/tech/985474/...
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The GitHub-like open-source AI repository was last valued at $4.5 billion in 2023. www.theverge.com/tech/985474/...
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $13B 💰 Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the "GitHub for AI," for $12.93 billion, a strategic move to secure its hardware dominance.
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The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets. www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
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Not seeing the logic here, but $12.9bn is 0.02% of Nvidia market cap so it's like buying a weird soda you see at the supermarket out of curiousity blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...
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Nvidia just made a $12.9 billion bet on open-source AI www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
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I feel like I've seen zero coverage of this in games - but Nvidia is purchasing the largest repository of AI LLM models on the internet for a whopping $13bil. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/n...
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Hmmm. I have been under a rock so missed this, but Nvidia buying Hugging Face does *not* seem like great news blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...
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Theoretically, can Nvidia direct Hugging Face to sue OpenAI now for the hack? Surely they could find some interesting stuff in discovery :)
These Hugging Face guys made out like BANDITS!!!! Good for them. My favorite part is they approached Jensen for the buyout. They knew, very smart and mature on the founders/board.
My understanding of Hugging Face is limited to "File Host with Model Cards". Can someone with more understanding explain what the $12 billion value comes from?
Not sure why this is news again this week when it was already announced previously. NYTimes was also reporting this like it was news today.
Happy for the hugging face team. Many great folks there who’ve waited patiently for HF to find a business model, and finally they get something even better.
Is the fact that Nvidia is also massively financing the closed-models companies, which stand to lose when open model project(s) take off, a conflict of interest here? I can’t tell if this is nvidia hedging or planning to embrace & extingui…
Feels like acquiring Docker Hub (just the hub, not even Docker Inc that controls Docker the software) in ~2018. AI craze valuations are truly out there.
Discussed last week at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458161
Huggingface, llama.cpp and all European frontier. Congrats to Huggingface Team, that amount is tempting but nowhere near your real evaluation. You were about to blow up and there is no AI bubble (just not enough infrastructure like energy …
Somebody better prep archive.org to buy a few more petabytes of storage.
The goal of the deal is to speed up open source according to Nvidia what a laugh ha ha ha … Where is the EU in all this? Is this not similar to letting another European tech company disappear from Europe ie.. Arms Holding which was sold to…
I personally think this acquisition is genius anybody who could afford it would be wise to own HuggingFace because they are incredible

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