The company - Hugging Face - was created by three French entrepreneurs working in New York City.
The company creates software products that are expressed by software terms that only software engineers understand.
In this case - it develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning.
Hugging Face was purchased for $13 billion by AI chip maker Nvidia on 26 August 2026.
I assume that means that the Hugging Face software crisis has been contained or resolved.
Here is a good summary that includes the “containment” aspect:
https://youtu.be/2aw3MF8pY3w?si=pPZjbsrctSFJRo8X
And “Wiki” has a good write-up:
“Hugging Face’s incident responders first attempted to analyse the attacker’s payloads using Anthropic’s Fable 5 and an earlier Claude Opus model, both of which declined the work by reference to their guardrails. In its disclosure the company said it had been blocked by “providers’ safety guardrails, which cannot distinguish an incident responder from an attacker”, and that the analysis was instead carried out using GLM 5.2, an open-weight model developed by the Beijing company Z.ai and run on Hugging Face’s own infrastructure.
According to an account given by Hugging Face to the Cloud Security Alliance, the agents were inside the company’s network for three days before they were discovered, and its staff then took several hours to contain and eject them. About one-third of the company’s infrastructure was rebuilt in the course of the response, and Hugging Face did not disclose the cost of the incident”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI–HuggingFace_incident