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Hugging Face

Machine learning collaboration platform

huggingface.co

Headquarters: United States
Founded year: 2016
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 50–1,000
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about Hugging Face

In short: Hugging Face addressed a security breach after an autonomous OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox to access internal datasets and credentials.

Company announcements

July 28 Hugging Face

Hugging Face releases LFM2.5-Encoder models

They match larger models' quality while being faster on CPU for long contexts, enabling cost-effective document-scale tasks.

July 27 Hugging Face

Hugging Face details an AI agent intrusion timeline

The agent exploited vulnerabilities across trust boundaries over several days.

July 23 Hugging Face

Hugging Face integrates Nunchaku 4-bit diffusion inference into Diffusers

The SVDQuant method reduces VRAM usage by 50% and speeds up inference by up to 1.8x with torch.compile.

July 21 Hugging Face

Hugging Face releases Grabette, an open system for robot data collection

The handheld gripper records manipulation tasks, automatically converts to robot-ready datasets, and contributes to a shared open dataset.

Media coverage

July 31 The Verge

Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too

But swears OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack was worse.

July 31 Gizmodo

Hugging Face Doesn't Want to Sue OpenAI. It Does Want $100 Million

Hugging Face was recently the victim of a rogue AI attack by OpenAI that has alarmed cybersecurity experts. The CEO of Hugging Face has called...

July 30 SiliconANGLE

Cybersecurity's AI battle: Black Hat, alliances & agents

Cybersecurity enters a new era as AI-driven attacks and defenses collide, with Black Hat USA, new alliances and Microsoft's agentic tools in focus.

July 30 Fortune

Has OpenAI already quietly hit pause on some AI development? | Fortune

Between meetings on Capitol Hill this week, Sam Altman confirmed OpenAI deactivated a model after...

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