Hugging Face正探索超130亿美元出售方案，估值近三倍于去年
JUST IN: Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a sale above $13B, nearly triple i…
Hugging Face作为AI生态核心枢纽的潜在重大并购，直接反映行业对模型分发层价值的重估，值得密切关注后续进展。
JUST IN: Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a sale above $13B, nearly triple its last disclosed valuation.
最新消息：据报道，Hugging Face 正在探索以超过 130 亿美元的价格出售，这几乎是其上次披露估值（约 45 亿美元）的三倍。
Business Insider reports the company is working with a bank to gauge bidders and the price would be nearly 3X the $4.5B valuation set by its $235M Series D in 2023.
《商业内幕》报道，该公司正与一家银行合作评估竞标者和价格，该价格将是其 2023 年 2.35 亿美元 D 轮融资所确定的 45 亿美元估值的近 3 倍。
HuggingFace now hosts more than 2M models, 1.5M datasets and 1.5M AI apps.
HuggingFace 目前托管了超过 200 万个模型、150 万个数据集和 150 万个 AI 应用。
A buyer would be acquiring the distribution layer around those assets, plus the workflow that helps developers find an artifact, judge whether it is safe, and put it into production. As open models multiply, that coordination layer becomes harder to replace.
买家将收购围绕这些资产的分发层，以及帮助开发者查找工件、判断其安全性并将其投入生产的工作流。随着开源模型的增多，这种协调层变得更难被替代。
Both Stripe’s purchase of OpenRouter and this new interest on Hugging Face looks like a bet on persistent model fragmentation, as the future.
Stripe 收购 OpenRouter 以及对 Hugging Face 的新兴趣，看起来都是押注于持久的模型碎片化作为未来趋势。
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