AI: Hugging Face Explores a Sale That Could Value It at $13 Billion

A possible sale of Hugging Face raises questions about the value of platforms that structure the open source ecosystem again. According to Business Insider, the company has reportedly hired a bank to probe buyers, with a potential valuation of 13 billion dollars or even more. No agreement exists yet and the buyers remain unknown. This hypothesis comes a few weeks after an intrusion related to an OpenAI AI agent, adding a new issue to this file…