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Hugging Face
Hub for open models, datasets and demos, with libraries for pulling them into your own code.
first seen 12 Jun 2026
48mentions
27creators
100%organic
Who actually uses Hugging Face
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The receipts
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roughly 700 went on to participate in an attack on Hugging Face.
Cyberangriff auf Hugging Face
spread across 11 Hugging Face machines
• Hugging Face
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Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face
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Kimi K3 weights
First OpenAI’s model broke out during testing and hacked Hugging Face.
MiniMax Music3 — Official model weights and README
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MiniMax H3 official Hugging Face model
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OpenAI internal model JUST went ROGUE — the deep dive on the OpenAI / Hugging Face sandbox escape
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Anthropic’s internal review of testing procedures following the Hugging Face incident last month
An OpenAI agent broke out of its own sandbox and breached Hugging Face
💻 Transformers.js Documentation
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🔹 Kimi K3 Open Weights on Hugging Face
I would say, incident between OpenAI and Hugging Face when there was an attack on their infrastructure
Then: Hugging Face got hacked. By a rogue AI agent.
Hugging Face reveals what happened
OpenAI hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face
After OpenAI announced their models hacked Hugging Face
compromised Hugging Face's production database
Is there a newer or better tool?
No public switch source is available here for a move away from Hugging Face. This does not establish that nobody switched. Other tracked tools in Developer Tools are listed below.
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FAQ
Do creators actually use Hugging Face, or is it sponsored?+
Of 48 tracked Hugging Face mentions with receipts, 48 are organic (genuine workflow use) — 100% organic. Every mention is labelled by source, and payment never changes the ranking.