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Sunday, 23 August 2026

Report: AI model hub Hugging Face exploring sale at $13B valuation

SiliconANGLE 2 months ago 31 ● 3 sources

Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value its AI model repository at about $13 billion, according to a report that said it hired a bank to find buyers. The fundraising comparison cited that Hugging Face previously raised $235 million three years earlier at a $4.5 billion valuation. A potential sale at that scale would shift Hugging Face’s ownership while reflecting broader interest in AI distribution assets.

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Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

TechCrunch 2 months ago 10 ● 3 sources

Ox Alpha, a free AI model listed on OpenRouter as a “stealth model,” sparked online speculation about who developed it. The OpenRouter listing says it was developed and operated by a third-party provider that chose to remain anonymous during the preview. As a result, public guesses split between China-linked possibilities (including Z.ai/GLM) and other theories such as an unreleased Microsoft MAI, with uncertainty continuing.

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