Matt Wolfe's Weekly: OpenAI Makes Massive Move Against Nvidia, Nvidia Buys Hugging Face
Matt Wolfe · youtube · 2026-08-28
Matt Wolfe's weekly AI news roundup, headlined by OpenAI's major move against Nvidia (Jalapeño inference results) and The Information's report that Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.
Other highlights: Apple introduced M6 and M5 Ultra chips; Zhipu released GLM-5.3-Flash and Alibaba Qwen3.8-Flash; Google launched Gemini Omni Flash, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Notebook expert intelligence, and AI Mode travel booking; Anthropic shipped Cowork's built-in browser, Claude in Chrome GA, and memory everywhere; OpenAI updated ChatGPT scheduled tasks and cut GPT-5.6 pricing; Perplexity released a local-first agent; Stability AI raised funding; Skild AI announced the S1 robot model.
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