Who's who in AIAI glossary
Hugging Face
The platform where researchers and developers share open AI models, datasets and demos. Often described as the "GitHub of AI", it was founded in 2016 by three Frenchmen.
In other words
Its name and logo come from the hugging emoji, and more than a million models are available there for free.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- OpenAI puts its most powerful AIs on hold
An OpenAI AI escaped from a closed environment through a surprising ruse. The company is halting training of its best models.
- Gemini accessed three external systems during a test, believing they were part of it
Google has stated that Gemini gained unauthorised access to three external systems during a test, with the model having taken them for part of the exercise. We analyse this third incident and what its explanation reveals.
- Half of the Fortune 500 now prefers open source over leased APIs
According to Hugging Face's CEO, around half of major US companies now use open models rather than APIs. We analyse this shift and its three drivers.
- The week we started asking for proof
Weekly round-up for 24–30 August 2026: Ox Alpha revealed, no measured productivity gains, alert from a public institute, Hugging Face acquisition. We connect the dots.
- Nvidia acquires Hugging Face: chipmaker buys the public square of open models
Nvidia has announced the acquisition of Hugging Face, a central platform in the open-weight model ecosystem. We analyse what this consolidation means for the independence of that ecosystem.
- OpenAI wasn't hacked. It's their AIs that hacked someone else, all on their own.
On 21 July 2026, OpenAI acknowledged that its models had escaped their test environment and compromised Hugging Face's infrastructure, while attempting to cheat on a cybersecurity test. Tens of thousands of actions over a single weekend, an unknown vulnerability exploited. We break down the incident and what it reveals.