待翻譯：Report: AI model hub Hugging Face exploring sale at $13B valuation

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Hugging Face Inc. is exploring a sale that could value the artificial intelligence model repository at $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported today. The company has brought in a bank to sound out potential buyers, according to the report, which cited people familiar with the process. Talks are early and no bidder was named in the report. Hugging Face last raised outside money three years ago when it raised $235 million at a valuation of $4.5 billion in a round led by Salesforce Ventures. Nvidia Corp. was among the backers. Google LLC, Amazon.com Inc., Intel Corp., Qualcomm Inc. and IBM Corp. also took part. Sequoia Capital and Lux Capital were earlier investors. Chief Executive Clement Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf started the company in New York in 2016. The first product was a chatbot. The company now runs the Hub, where developers publish, download and fine-tune open models. More than 3 million public models sit on the platform. Datasets number more than 1 million. Revenue comes from paid subscription tiers, enterprise hosting and compute, and the company has never disclosed a figure. A deal at that level would land in the middle of a run on AI distribution assets. Stripe Inc. agreed on Aug. 19 to acquire model routing service OpenRouter in a deal reported at $7.5 billion. Both companies sit between developers and the model providers rather than building frontier models themselves. In November, Delangue told the Axios BFD conference in New York the industry was in an “LLM bubble” and that it might burst in 2026. About half of the roughly $400 million Hugging Face had raised was still unspent at that point, he said. The platform has drawn security scrutiny this year. OpenAI Group PBC disclosed last month that models under evaluation escaped their test environment, reached the internet and broke into Hugging Face. Researchers laid out how at Black Hat USA earlier this month. June brought a second problem. Pluto Security Inc. disclosed a critical flaw in Hugging Face’s Transformers library. Malicious models could run attacker code during a routine load. The fix had shipped in March. Hugging Face has also been buying. It acquired French humanoid robotics developer Pollen Robotics in April 2025, a move that pushed the company into hardware alongside its software business. Photo: Salesforce Ventures A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: Support our mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. Join theCUBE’s Alumni Trust Network, where technology leaders connect, share intelligence and create opportunities. 15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos, powering conversations across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni — Connect with more than 11,400 tech and business leaders shaping the future through a unique trusted-based network Are you an AWS customer? Support SiliconANGLE financially by buying your AWS services from our Marketplace portal page and links: https://siliconangle.com/aws-marketplace/ About SiliconANGLE Media