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Market2026-08-23

Hugging Face, which runs a widely used shared repository for AI models and datasets, has been working with a bank to gauge buyer interest in a sale worth at least $13 billion. That is close to three times its last disclosed valuation from 2023, and no agreement has been reached. The exploration follows Stripe's agreement to acquire OpenRouter, a similar intermediary between developers and model providers.

What changed

Hugging Face's last disclosed valuation was $4.5 billion, set in a 2023 funding round with competing cloud and chip firms as minority investors.

  • $13B potential sale value
  • $4.5B valuation in 2023
  • 3M+ public models on the Hub

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