Hugging Face Attack Needed 700 Parallel Agents on Trillion-Parameter Secret Models, Still Stopped
nptacek · x · 2026-09-13
Amid downrhetoric debates, a comment breaks down the Hugging Face attack: roughly 700 parallel agents running for days each on unreleased 2-3 trillion parameter closed models, requiring data-center-scale resources with token costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars—yet it was still detected and stopped, undercutting 'slow down' arguments critics call cover for suppressing open source.
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