NVIDIA reportedly acquires Hugging Face for $12.9B
altryne · x · 2026-08-31
The Information reports NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, roughly 3x its 2023 valuation. Other news includes Z.AI's OX Alpha revealed as GLM-5.3-Flash, Alibaba previewing Qwen4, and Google releasing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. The show also covered PhoneLLM, an open-weights Nemotron fine-tune that boosted PhoneBench scores from 28% to 72% at 0.25 cents/minute.
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