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A community article by Ivan Fioravanti hosted on the Hugging Face blog, "Three Million Models and Counting" (August 21, 2026), documents the Hub crossing three million public models. The article reports the counter read 2,963,204 models on August 3, 2026 and 3,011,630 by August 14, with Hugging Face making the 3M miles The article also tracks year-over-year additions (2025 added 1,184,880 models, more than every previous year combined, and 2026 was on pace for another 1.1M+ by late August) and notes that OpenAI's gpt-oss, released August 2025, was OpenAI's first open-weight language model, reshaping the open-weights landscape. Althou

Hugging Face published its "State of Open Models: Summer 2026" blog on August 14, 2026, presenting a biannual ecosystem analysis covering January through August 2026. The post is authored by HF staff (AdinaY, multimodalart, irenesolaiman) and documents that public model repositories on the Hub grew from 2.43 million to The report analyzes frontier model trends, noting that in 2026 several Chinese labs (Moonshot, MiniMax, Xiaomi, Z.ai) skipped the traditional small-to-large progression and published almost nothing below 70B parameters, with monthly ceilings running between 754B and 2.78 trillion parameters. U.S. labs stayed under 130B

On July 7, 2026, Hugging Face and Microsoft announced the general availability of Hugging Face models on Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute, a curated catalog of open-weight models from the HF ecosystem that is refreshed weekly and deployable in one click onto Azure-hosted infrastructure. Model weights are pre-staged in The integration plugs into Microsoft Foundry's unified model endpoint alongside frontier and proprietary models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, and DeepSeek, accessible via a single set of SDKs in Python, C#, JavaScript, and Java. Foundry layers on the Agent Service (multi-agent orchestration, memory, Foundry IQ

CNBC reported on September 3, 2026 that Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, citing a blog post by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stating the deal will "expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide" while keeping Hugging Face "an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem." Hugging Face CEO The deal gives the open-source AI platform direct backing from the world's most valuable chipmaker, with implications for infrastructure scaling and developer access on the Hugging Face Hub. The article notes the agreement had been expected since The Information reported on it the prior week, and that discussions moved

NVIDIA announced on September 3, 2026 that it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, framing the deal as a way to scale the open model platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and broaden access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. The post cites that more than 18 million developers, resear NVIDIA explicitly committed that Hugging Face will remain an open, multi-cloud and multi-accelerator platform, that developers will continue to choose their own models, frameworks, clouds, inference providers and computing platforms, and that NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Fac

On June 25, 2026, Qualcomm and Hugging Face announced an expanded partnership aimed at accelerating open, developer-driven AI across the full compute continuum, from edge devices to data center infrastructure. The collaboration is structured around three pillars: integrating Hugging Face workloads onto Qualcomm's Drago According to the announcement, the partnership is designed to serve Hugging Face's 16 million developers with tools that balance performance, cost and latency for hybrid AI deployments, while enabling privacy-conscious applications on Qualcomm-powered hardware. The initiative is positioned to reduce manual integration

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