HuggingFace reportedly explores sale at valuation of at least $13B
APPSO · wechat · 2026-08-25
HuggingFace has hired bankers and is approaching potential buyers for a sale valuing the AI developer platform at $13B+, Business Insider reports; no deal is final. Its 2023 valuation was $4.5B. Google, Amazon, NVIDIA and Salesforce are both investors and ecosystem participants — whether a new owner preserves platform neutrality is the key question.
Other headlines: Xiaomi launched three XRinger chips (O3 on 3nm with 200TOPS NPU, O100, D100); XPeng's robotics unit raised $900M+ at a $6.3B+ valuation, a record for China's embodied AI sector; NVIDIA reportedly in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30B+; ByteDance merged TRAE and Coze into Doubao with a new "Doubao Work" brand coming; Alibaba's Wan3.0 video model launched with native 30-second generation; DAMO Academy's LiON liver AI published in Nature Medicine, catching 15 missed malignant tumors in clinical trials; Unitree shares down 44%+ from opening price.
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