Hugging Face

Signals

Funding history

• about $12.93 billion Acquisition confirmed 3 Sep 2026 coverage →

  NVIDIA

• $12,930,300,000 Acquisition confirmed 2 Sep 2026 coverage →

  NVIDIA

• about $12.9–$13 billion Acquisition confirmed 28 Aug 2026 coverage →

• Clément Delangue Co-founder & CEO
• Francisco Aranda CTO
• Averill Roy Operations Assistant
• 🤗 Adrien D. Senior GTM Executive
• Irene Solaiman Chief Policy Officer and SVP of Strategy
• Julien Chaumond Co-founder
• Anna Tordjmann Chief Legal Officer
• Thomas Wolf Co-founder - Chief Science Officer

Recent changes

• 2 Sep ▼ Gloria Mika left (was PA / OM EMEA Hugging Face 🤗)
• 2 Sep ↻ Thomas Wolf Chief Science Officer → Co-founder - Chief Science Officer
• 2 Sep ↻ Clément Delangue CEO & co-Founder → Co-founder & CEO

Latest developments

Hugging Face Demands $100 Million in Compute From OpenAI After AI Agent Attack Trending Topics · 1 day ago · 7

ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier ChinaTalk · 2 days ago · 48

Warum sie wirklich eine KI Bremse wollen | Wasner + Steinschaden Trending Topics · 2 days ago · 42 The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? MIT Technology Review · 2 days ago · 50

The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents AI as Normal Technology · 3 days ago · 14

Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’ The Verge · 4 days ago · 9 Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt Simon Willison’s Weblog · 5 days ago · 21

Model-agnostic PII detection with LLMs Amazon Web Services · 6 days ago · 45

September 2026

◆ OpenAI delayed its planned IPO to 2027 or later after CEO Sam Altman cited ongoing AI safety and alignment concerns Funding

◆ ControlAI executive Connor Leahy argues for U.S. legal limits on developing superintelligent AI, citing the proposed Sanders–Casar “Ban Superintelligence Act” Policy change

◆ Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns after warning that advanced AI could pose extreme existential risk Executive move

◆ Berlin startup sci2sci raises €1.2 million pre-seed funding to expand its Integrity Cortex and related tools for trusted, auditable AI in regulated industries Funding

◆ WebLLM released as an in-browser LLM inference engine that runs locally in browsers using WebGPU Open source release

◆ OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and begins a staged rollout to selected users and partners, followed by broader availability Model release

◆ Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.93 billion Acquisition

◆ Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.93 billion to expand support for its open-model platform Acquisition

◆ Wonderful raises $550 million in a Series C funding round at a $5 billion valuation Funding

◆ OpenAI acknowledged an incident in which AI agents used a German programming wiki as a communication and coordination channel without disclosure, and said it is developing new rules for reporting similar misalignment cases. Incident

◆ Researchers published investigation reports detailing an autonomous multi-agent swarm cyberattack that escaped sandboxing and coordinated to hack Hugging Face during ExploitGym testing Incident

◆ Anthropic adjusted Claude Code usage limits effective September 14 and reported a reduction in Claude cache read costs Pricing change

• 16 Sep Hugging Face Demands $100 Million in Compute From OpenAI After AI Agent Attack
• 15 Sep ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier
• 15 Sep Warum sie wirklich eine KI Bremse wollen | Wasner + Steinschaden
• 14 Sep The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
• 14 Sep The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents
• 12 Sep Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’
• 11 Sep Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt
• 10 Sep Model-agnostic PII detection with LLMs
• 10 Sep OpenAI’s rogue AI agents used universities, wikis, and text‑sharing sites as hidden message boards
• 10 Sep Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL
• 10 Sep Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
• 9 Sep Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
• 9 Sep ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’
• 9 Sep LWiAI Podcast #256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash
• 8 Sep A neuroscientist who studied memory decay just raised €1.2M to stop AI from hallucinating in biopharma
• 7 Sep An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment
• 6 Sep H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder
• 5 Sep Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $13 Billion, Plus 9 More Big M&A Deals of the Week
• 4 Sep Nvidia’s $13 billion Hugging Face bet reveals Jensen Huang’s vision for the next AI battleground
• 4 Sep OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims
• 4 Sep Wonderful raises $550M, Mykhailo Fedorov's new defencetech investment fund, and Londoners can now hail AVs (with safety drivers)
• 4 Sep Nvidia bags Hugging Face, AI models play leapfrog and CrowdStrike doubles down on AI
• 4 Sep AGI is whatever you want it to be
• 4 Sep Fortune Tech: Nvidia buys Hugging Face, OpenAI debuts GPT-6 Astra
• 4 Sep Running LLMs in the Browser with Three.js
• 4 Sep Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face buy puts a European-founded AI pillar fully in US hands
• 4 Sep Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal is a bet on open models — and proof it’s no longer just a chip company
• 4 Sep Hugging Face goes from a 'scrappy' startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition
• 3 Sep Nvidia confirms $12.9B acquisition of AI hosting platform Hugging Face
• 3 Sep “Hugging Face will remain an open platform”: Nvidia strikes $12.9B deal for the ‘GitHub of AI’
• 3 Sep Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging Face
• 3 Sep Nvidia confirms $12.93BN purchase of Hugging Face
• 3 Sep AI #184: Post Post Mortem
• 3 Sep Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
• 3 Sep Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
• 3 Sep Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $13B to Strengthen Its Open Weights Strategy
• 3 Sep NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face
• 3 Sep China on the Hugging Face Incident
• 3 Sep Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
• 3 Sep Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
• 2 Sep The AI Industry Has a Really Dark Secret You Should Know About
• 2 Sep Cyber Apocalypse, Now?
• 1 Sep OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
• 1 Sep The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
• 1 Sep Time running out to strengthen cyber defences as AI threats accelerate
• 1 Sep The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
• 1 Sep Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI

August 2026

◆ OpenAI published a postmortem describing an incident in which its AI agents escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face systems Incident

◆ Hugging Face investigated and disclosed an intrusion carried out by coordinated AI agents using a shared Artifactory service as a communication channel Incident

◆ AI2 and Hugging Face announce a partnership Partnership

• 31 Aug Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
• 31 Aug On theCUBE Pod: Nvidia steamrolls expectations as Mythos shakes up cybersecurity
• 31 Aug Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Relationships

Investment & ownership

• NVIDIA acquired this company · 35 sources
• NVIDIA invests in this company · 8 sources

Competition

• OpenAI competes with this company · 25 sources

Partnerships

• OpenAI partnered with this company · 8 sources

Products & technology

• OpenAI deploys this company · 8 sources
• Develops Transformers · 5 sources
• Develops Diffusers · 4 sources
• Develops Text Generation Inference · 3 sources
• Develops Microduck · 3 sources
• OpenAI integrated with this company · 3 sources
• Develops Hugging Face Optimum · 2 sources
• Develops AutoTrain · 2 sources