[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro
Z.ai released open-weight GLM-5.3-Flash (320B/18B active, 1M context, MIT) while Nvidia confirmed buying Hugging Face for $13B.
Z.ai formally launched GLM-5.3-Flash, the model previously previewed as Ox Alpha: 320B total parameters with 18B active, a 1M-token context window, natively multimodal, MIT-licensed, and claimed on par with Claude Opus 4.8 on coding. Artificial Analysis scored it 57 on its Intelligence Index at $0.09 per task, roughly 7.5x cheaper than GLM-5.3, and it scored 84.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Nvidia's $13B acquisition of Hugging Face (~80x its $150M ARR) was confirmed, nearly double its initial $7B January offer. The roundup also notes Qwen shipping an impressive Flash model on Chinese chips as part of a broader open-model narrative.
- GLM-5.3-Flash: 320B total/18B active params, 1M context, MIT license, weights on Hugging Face
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score 57, ties GPT-5.6 Terra at far lower cost per task
- GDPval-AA v2 Elo 1770 and 84.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1; strongest in agentic and coding tasks
- Immediate day-one support from CoreWeave, Baseten and Cline integrations
- Nvidia confirmed $13B Hugging Face deal, up from a $7B initial offer in January
- Products
- Hugging Face
- Organizations
- OpenAI
- Countries
- China
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TheInformation had the scoop , and now they have the confirmation — Nvidia is buying HuggingFace for $13B, roughly 80x their $150M ARR , having doubled its customer base in 2026 . This is almost double Nvidia’s initial $7B offer in Jan 2026. What can we say?
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