# 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](https://huggingface.co) |
| Napkin: new-money stake | 5.2% ($235.00M of $4.50B) | 2023-08-24 | [source](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/24/google-amazon-nvidia-amd-other-tech-giants-invest-in-hugging-face.html) |


## 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](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/openai-spark-hugging-face-bid-war-early-investment-bid-ahead-of-nvidia.html)
- 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](https://huggingface.co/blog/nepyope/bringing-humanoids-to-lerobot)
- 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](https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/relore-repository-memory)

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*Derived from the SOMEN graph at render time. The arithmetic cannot lobby you.*