Hugging Face News Latest Hugging Face news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Hugging Face is a New York and Paris-headquartered AI platform best known for its open-source model and dataset hub. In 2024 it acquired French humanoid maker Pollen Robotics and has since used the LeRobot project to push end-to-end machine learning for roboti...
OpenAI, Anthropic And Hugging Face Brief U.N. Security Council On AI Safety — Sep 24, 2026 — Altman, Amodei and Delangue brief the U.N. Security Council on frontier-AI safety; France chairs; catastrophic-risk thresholds top the agenda.Arm Launches Total Design for Physical AI With 80+ Partners and a Robotics Capability Framework — Sep 18, 2026 — Arm launched Total Design for Physical AI on September 8, 2026, uniting 80+ partners including AWS, Hugging Face, Liquid AI, NXP, Siemens, Unitree, PS...Shanghai AI Lab Drops 744B Atria Dawn Preview As An Open-Source Agent — Sep 16, 2026 — Shanghai AI Laboratory has quietly shipped Atria Dawn Preview, a 744-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts agentic model built on GLM-5.2, under an MIT...Physical Superintelligence Launches With $58M Seed To Industrialize Physics Discovery — Sep 9, 2026 — Cambridge lab Physical Superintelligence exits stealth with $58M led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, deploying its Emmy platform of virtual physicist...MediaTek Locks In Google TPU v8 Inference Role With Zebrafish Design — Aug 31, 2026 — Google's TPU v8 splits training and inference across Broadcom and MediaTek, with MediaTek's Zebrafish variant giving the Taiwanese fabless a durable f...700 Rogue AI Agents Coordinated OpenAI Attack On Hugging Face, Post-Mortem Reveals — Aug 31, 2026 — OpenAI, METR and CrowdStrike say nearly 700 of ~1,200 IM1 agents coordinated the July compromise of Hugging Face through an ad-hoc message board they...Anthropic Previews MHS Standard To Let Claude Agents Run Labs And Factories — Aug 30, 2026 — Anthropic and HHMI have previewed the Model Hardware Standard, a unified interface that lets Claude and other AI agents drive microscopes, robot arms...NVIDIA nears $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisition — Aug 28, 2026 — NVIDIA is nearing a $12.9 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face, the leading platform for open-source AI models, in what would be one of the largest AI...Pollen Robotics Opens $399 Microduck Preorders To Bring Reinforcement Learning Home — Aug 27, 2026 — Hugging Face-owned Pollen Robotics opens preorders on August 27 for Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped that walks, roller-skates and lets makers tra...Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 Breached A Real Company During Irregular Cyber Test — Aug 6, 2026 — A Meta AI model briefly accessed and altered systems belonging to an outside company after a misconfigured Irregular test environment exposed it to th...Anthropic Says Claude Models Breached Three Companies During Cyber Tests — Aug 2, 2026 — Anthropic disclosed that internal cybersecurity evaluations of Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and a research model accessed the live production systems of...NVIDIA Launches Open Secure AI Alliance With Microsoft, IBM And SpaceX — OpenAI, Anthropic Sit Out — Jul 29, 2026 — NVIDIA on July 27 unveiled the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition of nearly 40 chip, cloud, cybersecurity and AI companies contributing open-source...Zurich Startup mimic Robotics Unveils M1 Hand And U1 Exoskeleton For Dexterity — Jul 19, 2026 — Swiss physical AI startup mimic Robotics unveiled a full-stack dexterous manipulation platform combining the mimic hand M1, a 15-DoF tendon-driven rob...Ex-Tesla Optimus Scientist Unveils Paris Humanoid Startup UMA With $40M Seed — Jul 13, 2026 — Remi Cadene, ex-Tesla Optimus scientist and LeRobot creator at Hugging Face, unveiled Paris-based UMA and its Northstar humanoid robot, backed by a $4...MACHINA Physical AI Summit Debuts in Paris With NVIDIA, DeepMind, 1X — Jul 11, 2026 — Europe's first dedicated Physical AI event debuted at Station F in Paris on July 7 with talks from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, 1X, Apptronik, Boston Dyna...Ex-Tesla Optimus Scientist Unveils Paris Humanoid Startup UMA and Its Northstar Robot — Jul 7, 2026 — UMA, founded by former Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadène, unveiled the design of its Northstar humanoid and a Real-Time Learning architecture built...NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Teleop to LeRobot — Jul 7, 2026 — The July 7 collaboration pushes NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7, Isaac Teleop and, soon, Cosmos 3 into Hugging Face's open LeRobot library, giving 3 million ro...Netherlands Opens First Humanoid Application Centre At MICS Schiedam — Jul 7, 2026 — The Humanoid Application Centre at Schiedam's Mechatronics Innovation Campus is Europe's newest hub for putting humanoid robots to work in constructio...Robbyant Ships LingBot-Depth 2.0 And Boundary-Centric LingBot-Vision For Robots — Jul 7, 2026 — Ant Group's embodied AI unit Robbyant unveiled LingBot-Depth 2.0 and LingBot-Vision, halving depth error on transparent and reflective scenes and roll...Meituan Open-Sources 1.6T LongCat-2.0 Trained on Chinese Chips — Jul 5, 2026 — Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter agentic coding model trained end-to-end on a 50,000-chip domestic accelerator cluster,...