Hugging Face Attack Took 700 Agents and Trillion-Parameter Models

Analysis of the recent Hugging Face security incident suggests the attack required around 700 parallel agents running for days, each powered by unpublished closed-source models of at least 2-3 trillion parameters, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars—undercutting narratives of imminent existential AI risk.

2026-09-13 ~ 2026-09-13 · 2 related posts

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