One week in AI: 7 model releases, a $12.9B NVIDIA-Hugging Face deal
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-08
A recap of AI's first week of September:
- Model flood: seven models from four major players in seven days — OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, Meta Muse Spark 1.3, Google Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
- M&A: NVIDIA confirmed acquiring Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
- Open source: Perplexity open-sourced Lily, a local inference engine for Apple Silicon; Anthropic open-sourced its Claude Commerce Agents blueprint
- Other: Grok Bot arrived on Android; OpenAI's 90th-percentile researchers now burn over $7,000 in tokens per day; Jensen Huang declared "AGI has arrived"
The author's framing: AI isn't moving fast — it's moving faster than anyone can track.
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