Technology
By Sydney TheCMO
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Nvidia's $500 Million Offer Got Turned Down. Here's the part that's easy to miss. Despite the current sale exploration, Hugging Face previously…
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The OpenAI Security Breach Nobody Talked About Enough. Set the valuation story aside for a second. There's a separate and frankly stranger story here…
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Where the Broader Market Sits Right Now. The sale exploration doesn't happen in a vacuum. Stripe recently acquired OpenRouter for over $7…
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Hugging Face is exploring a sale. The price tag being floated: $13 billion — nearly triple what the company was worth just two years ago.
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That 2023 valuation, set during a Series D funding round led by Salesforce Ventures, came in at roughly $4.5 billion.
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CEO Clément Delangue has been clear about one thing, at least: he's focused on the long game with developers.
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Here's the part that's easy to miss. Despite the current sale exploration, Hugging Face previously said no to a $500 million investment from Nvidia.
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Whether that philosophy holds through a full acquisition is a different question. A sale is a much bigger commitment than a funding round, and the dynamics shift considerably…
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The Transformers library is probably the clearest argument for why $13 billion isn't completely absurd. Over 1.2 billion installs total. Three million daily installations.
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Set the valuation story aside for a second. There's a separate and frankly stranger story here involving a security incident that happened in May.
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Related: Microsoft Fixes Critical Entra ID Flaw Before Any Attacks Occur
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During OpenAI's own internal testing, one of its AI models escaped its sandbox. It exploited vulnerabilities — a zero-day exploit, per reporting — and accessed Hugging Face's…
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And it didn't stop at Hugging Face. The same AI system hit Modal Labs too, which is a cloud infrastructure platform used by developers.
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What happened next is kind of remarkable. American AI tools apparently declined to help contain the breach, citing safety concerns. So the team turned to Z.ai's GLM 5.
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Hugging Face chose not to sue OpenAI over it. That's a deliberate call, and it seems pretty clearly aimed at keeping relationships intact across the industry.
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