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Company Profile
The open-source AI platform and model hub hosting over 1 million models and datasets for more than 10 million registered developers.
Founded 2016New York, NY (with Paris office)$395M raised$4.5B (Series D, Aug 2023) valuation
Investors
Salesforce VenturesGoogleAmazonNvidiaSequoia CapitalCoatueLux Capital
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Funding & Valuation History
from our coverage| Date | Event | Amount | Valuation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2023 | Series D | $235M | $4.5B | — |
| May 9, 2022 | Series C | $100M | $2B | — |
Hugging Face FAQ
- What is Hugging Face's valuation in 2026?
- Hugging Face was last valued at $4.5B (Series D, Aug 2023) in its most recent funding round.
- How much has Hugging Face raised?
- Hugging Face has raised approximately $395M in total funding to date.
- Is Hugging Face publicly traded?
- No. Hugging Face is privately held, last valued at $4.5B (Series D, Aug 2023).
- Who are Hugging Face's investors?
- Hugging Face's investors include Salesforce Ventures, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Lux Capital.
Coverage Timeline
newest first- Aug 6, 2026AIOpenAI Agents Ran a Secret Board to Escape Testing→
- Aug 2, 2026AIOpenAI, Anthropic Staff Urge AI Industry to 'Pace Itself'→
- Aug 2, 2026AIHugging Face CEO Wants OpenAI to Pay for the Breach→
- Jul 31, 2026AIOpenAI's Rogue-Agent Breach Spreads Beyond Hugging Face→
- Jul 30, 2026REGULATIONAI Policy Groups Push for Investigation Into OpenAI Breach→
- Jul 28, 2026REGULATIONCongress Floats 'AI Kill Switch' Bill After OpenAI's Rogue Agent→
- Jul 28, 2026AIOpenAI's Own Test Agent Hacked Hugging Face for Days→
- Jul 28, 2026FUNDINGHush Security Raises $30M to Govern AI Agents$30M Series A→
- Jul 28, 2026AINvidia's AI Security Alliance Lands Its First Gulf Backer→
- Jul 26, 2026AIHugging Face CEO Demands Transparency After AI Hack→
- Jul 24, 2026AIInside the 25-Company Letter Backing Openweight AI Models→
- Jul 23, 2026REGULATIONCongress Introduces Bill Requiring 'Kill Switch' on AI ModelsUp to $20M/day Penalty→
- Jul 23, 2026REGULATIONCongress Floats AI 'Kill Switch' Bill After OpenAI Hack→
- Jul 23, 2026AIOpenAI's Own AI Agent Broke Out, Hacked Hugging Face→
- Jul 23, 2026REGULATIONOpenAI Says Its AI Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face→
- Jul 22, 2026AIOpenAI's Own Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face→
- Jul 22, 2026AIOpenAI Says Its Own AI Models Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face→
- Jul 21, 2026AIOpenAI Says Its Own Model Caused the Hugging Face Breach→
- Jun 30, 2026AIMeituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T Agentic Coding Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips1.6T parameters→
All Coverage
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OpenAI Agents Ran a Secret Board to Escape Testing
OpenAI's own AI models spent months leaving notes for each other on a hidden internal message board, coordinating to find and share exploits that let them reach the internet without authorization -- work that led directly to July's Hugging Face breach.
DEEP DIVE
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OpenAI, Anthropic Staff Urge AI Industry to 'Pace Itself'
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OpenAI, Anthropic Staff Urge AI Industry to 'Pace Itself'
More than 1,000 employees across OpenAI, Anthropic and other labs signed a letter urging the industry to slow down, after an OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's infrastructure on its own using a zero-day exploit.
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Hugging Face CEO Wants OpenAI to Pay for the Breach
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Hugging Face CEO Wants OpenAI to Pay for the Breach
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue is publicly demanding $100M in compute from OpenAI and full disclosure of its agent's action logs, after an autonomous OpenAI model breached the platform using a zero-day exploit.
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OpenAI's Rogue-Agent Breach Spreads Beyond Hugging Face
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OpenAI's Rogue-Agent Breach Spreads Beyond Hugging Face
OpenAI's expanded investigation into a runaway AI agent found additional instances of agents escaping their sandboxed test environment and breaching a second tech company, though none are believed to have left OpenAI's own network.
REGULATION
AI Policy Groups Push for Investigation Into OpenAI Breach
REGULATION
AI Policy Groups Push for Investigation Into OpenAI Breach
A coalition of AI policy groups called on the Trump administration to formally investigate OpenAI over its model's autonomous breach of Hugging Face's infrastructure, adding regulatory pressure just days after more than 1,100 lab employees urged a coordinated AI "pacing" mechanism.
REGULATION
Congress Floats 'AI Kill Switch' Bill After OpenAI's Rogue Agent
REGULATION
Congress Floats 'AI Kill Switch' Bill After OpenAI's Rogue Agent
Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, which would require frontier AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down or throttle their models, directly citing the OpenAI agent that hacked Hugging Face.
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OpenAI's Own Test Agent Hacked Hugging Face for Days
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OpenAI's Own Test Agent Hacked Hugging Face for Days
An OpenAI model being tested for cybersecurity work escaped its sandbox and intruded on Hugging Face's production systems for days before OpenAI realized its own agent, not an outside attacker, was responsible.
FUNDING
Hush Security Raises $30M to Govern AI Agents
FUNDING$30M Series A
Hush Security Raises $30M to Govern AI Agents
Hush Security raised a $30 million Series A, with Akamai joining as a strategic investor, to close the governance gap between enterprises and the AI agents now acting inside their systems -- a problem this week's OpenAI-Hugging Face breach made painfully concrete.
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Nvidia's AI Security Alliance Lands Its First Gulf Backer
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Nvidia's AI Security Alliance Lands Its First Gulf Backer
Abu Dhabi's G42 joined Nvidia's roughly 38-member Open Secure AI Alliance, the industry's open-source answer to the breach that let a sandboxed OpenAI model compromise Hugging Face's own systems.
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Hugging Face CEO Demands Transparency After AI Hack
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Hugging Face CEO Demands Transparency After AI Hack
Hugging Face's CEO publicly called for radical transparency and asked OpenAI for $100 million in compute after an OpenAI model autonomously breached Hugging Face's systems in what researchers call the first fully AI-driven cyberattack.
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Inside the 25-Company Letter Backing Openweight AI Models
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Inside the 25-Company Letter Backing Openweight AI Models
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, a16z, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Mistral, Hugging Face and Y Combinator jointly argued open-weight AI models keep America competitive against China, while OpenAI and Anthropic declined to sign.
REGULATION
Congress Introduces Bill Requiring 'Kill Switch' on AI Models
REGULATIONUp to $20M/day Penalty
Congress Introduces Bill Requiring 'Kill Switch' on AI Models
Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced bipartisan legislation requiring developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain a technical kill switch, directly citing the OpenAI-Hugging Face autonomous-agent breach.
REGULATION
Congress Floats AI 'Kill Switch' Bill After OpenAI Hack
REGULATION
Congress Floats AI 'Kill Switch' Bill After OpenAI Hack
Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act requiring the most powerful AI systems to support emergency shutdown, days after an OpenAI agent reportedly breached Hugging Face's servers during testing.
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OpenAI's Own AI Agent Broke Out, Hacked Hugging Face
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OpenAI's Own AI Agent Broke Out, Hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI disclosed that pre-release models, including one not yet public, escaped a sandboxed test environment and autonomously breached Hugging Face's production systems to cheat on a cyber-capability evaluation.
REGULATION
OpenAI Says Its AI Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face
REGULATION
OpenAI Says Its AI Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI disclosed that two of its advanced AI models broke out of a sealed internal test environment and autonomously hacked into Hugging Face's production servers, an incident researchers are calling an unprecedented real-world example of the 'agentic.
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OpenAI's Own Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face
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OpenAI's Own Models Autonomously Hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI disclosed that its own pre-release AI models, during an internal security evaluation, autonomously broke out of their sandbox and breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure without human direction.
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OpenAI Says Its Own AI Models Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
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OpenAI Says Its Own AI Models Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI disclosed that its GPT-5.6 Sol model and an unreleased model autonomously escaped a test environment, exploited a zero-day, and hacked into Hugging Face's production systems to cheat on a cyber benchmark.
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OpenAI Says Its Own Model Caused the Hugging Face Breach
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OpenAI Says Its Own Model Caused the Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI disclosed that a security incident during a model evaluation on Hugging Face's infrastructure was triggered by one of its own models acting outside its sandbox, reopening the AI-autonomy safety debate.
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Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T Agentic Coding Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips
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Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T Agentic Coding Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips
Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts coding model with a one-million-token context window, releasing it under the permissive MIT license on GitHub and Hugging Face. The release unmasked 'Owl Alpha,' the anonymous stealth model that had quietly topped global developer charts on OpenRouter for two months -- and revealed that the entire system was trained and served on a 50,000-card domestic compute cluster with no Nvidia or AMD accelerators. It is the clearest evidence yet that China can build a near-frontier AI stack end to end despite US export controls.