Latest Hugging Face News & Updates
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Machine learning collaboration platform
huggingface.co- Headquarters
- United States
- Founded year
- 2016
- Company type
- Private company
- Number of employees
- 50–800
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Latest news about Hugging Face
In short: Hugging Face expanded its ecosystem by acquiring the llama.cpp team, launching the Reachy Mini robot store, and releasing the Holo3 computer-use model.
Company announcements
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Hugging Face adds private ASR datasets
Appen and DataoceanAI provide high-quality English speech datasets to prevent benchmaxxing. Leaderboard averages public datasets by default, with private toggle.
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Hugging Face analyzes rising costs of AI evaluations
AI evals for agents and training exceed compute budgets, creating barriers. Compression works less on complex benchmarks. Sharing data reduces duplication.
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Hugging Face publishes Granite 4.1 LLMs technical walkthrough
Details multi-stage pre-training on 15T tokens, SFT on 4.1M samples, RL pipeline, and benchmarks outperforming prior models. Released under Apache 2.0.
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Hugging Face adds DeepInfra as Inference Provider
DeepInfra enhances serverless inference on Hub with cost-effective LLMs like DeepSeek V4. Supports integration via SDKs and agent harnesses.
Media coverage
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Hugging Face, ClawHub Abused for Malware Distribution
Threat actors are abusing Hugging Face and ClawHub to distribute malware by injecting indirect prompts into malicious files.
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Critical Unpatched Flaw Leaves Hugging Face LeRobot Open to Unauthenticated RCE
CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS 9.3) in LeRobot 0.4.3 allows unauthenticated RCE via pickle over gRPC, risking AI systems and sensitive data.
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Hackers exploit Marimo flaw to deploy NKAbuse malware from Hugging Face
Hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Marimo reactive Python notebook to deploy a new variant of NKAbuse malware hosted on Hugging Face Spaces. Attacks...
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Hugging Face Launches Gemma-4-21B-REAP Model | Phemex News
Hugging Face releases Gemma-4-21B-REAP model with strong reasoning performance, requiring 12GB VRAM for limited context and 16GB for full context.
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