NVIDIA reportedly buys Hugging Face for $12.9B; GLM-5.3-Flash and Qwen4 preview land
altryne · x · 2026-09-01
ThursdAI's Aug 27 episode rounds up the week in AI:
- The Information reports NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, about 3x its 2023 valuation; the crew debated implications for open source for an hour.
- Z.AI's mystery OX Alpha declassified as GLM-5.3-Flash: 320B-A18B MoE, MIT license, served on Chinese chips.
- Alibaba previewed the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next; Google dropped Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash live, topping Arena's text-to-video leaderboard.
- Two killer interviews: TIME 100 honoree Andy Masley dismantled datacenter panic numbers one by one (including a 4,500x water error in Empire of AI); Kwindla Kramer unveiled PhoneLLM, an open-weights Nemotron post-train that jumped PhoneBench from 28% to 72% and runs voice agents at a quarter cent per minute.
Related event: Nvidia Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for Around $12.9 Billion(7 posts)→
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