Hugging Face: valuation, funding, and the secondary tape

The short version

Claimed valuation: $4.50B.
New-money stake: 5.2%.

instrument	value	as of	source
Claimed valuation	$4.50B		source
Napkin: new-money stake	5.2% ($235.00M of $4.50B)	2023-08-24	source

Recent milestones

2026-10-01 - CNBC reported that OpenAI offered to invest about $100 million in Hugging Face and discussed a custom-chip distribution arrangement; Hugging
2026-09-25 - Hugging Face’s LeRobot ecosystem was extended to humanoid robotics in a new community announcement describing an open-source Unitree G1 work
2026-09-24 - Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights 7B world-action model for robot control. The model was built with NVIDIA and Huggi

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