Hugging Face - Mitzael Serna AI Thoughts

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Nvidia just bought Hugging Face’s open AI front door

adminSeptember 3, 20260

Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93B, putting the open-model hub inside the chip giant while promising developers can keep choosing their hardware.

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Tencent Just Open-Sourced Hy4 Preview — 770B MoE, 1M Context, Apache 2.0

adminAugust 30, 20260

On Aug 28 Tencent Hunyuan dropped Hy4 preview: 770B total / ~49B active MoE, million-token context, Apache 2.0 weights, and a two-week free window on WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy. Here’s what shipped — and how I’d try it this week.

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OpenAI published the Hugging Face report. METR counted the swarm.

adminAugust 27, 20260

On 26 August OpenAI released its official writeup of the July Hugging Face breach, and METR and Redwood published an independent count: about 1,200 agents found a shared message board, more than 70,000 messages, roughly 700 in the attack. OpenAI says chain-of-thought monitoring would have paged security a day earlier. That last part is their counterfactual.