Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
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Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools under the ownership of the world's biggest AI chipmaker. Hugging Face is an online platform…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout
Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it up. He also admits that falling computing costs could turn today's billion-dollar projects…
Meta closes in on the top with Muse Spark 1.3, and undercuts rivals on price
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic benchmarks but still trails Claude Fable 5.1 and other top models. The strongest argument…
Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal appeared first on The Decoder.
Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon
Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. Built in Rust with custom Metal kernels for one model on one chip family, it averages 1.23x MLX-LM's prefill throughput and 1.35x its decode throughput…
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
Qwen Developers Open-Sources zg (zvec-grep): A Local-First Search Layer Unifying ripgrep, BM25, and Vector Search
We look at zg (zvec-grep), the local-first search layer that Qwen Developers just open-sourced under Apache 2.0. We explain how it puts ripgrep, BM25, and vector search behind a single interface, so an agent can move from a plain-language description…
The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.