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Emily Forlini

Hugging Face goes from a 'scrappy' startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition

Hugging Face cofounder and chief scientist Thomas Wolf. (Credit: Shauna Clinton—Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images)

Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Beatrice Nolan. In today’s issue:

  • Nvidia will purchase open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $13B
  • OpenAI debuts GPT-6 Astra model
  • Google debuts Gemini 3.8 Flash model
  • ChatGPT experiences second outage in three days—and Claude, Grok also go down
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