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Hugging Face Evaluates Acquisition Inquiries at $13B Valuation
Open-source machine learning hub Hugging Face has received preliminary acquisition approaches that value the company at $13 billion or higher, according to reporting from Business Insider and TechCrunch. The company is reportedly consulting with investment banks to assess inbound interest, though no formal sale agreement has been signed. The prospective valuation represents nearly a three-fold increase from Hugging Face's August 2023 Series D funding round, which valued the company at $4.5 bill
August 25, 20261 min
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Alibaba's Qwen research lab released Qwen 3.8 27B, a 27-billion-parameter Apache 2.0 licensed AI model available in 17GB GGUF format that can run on high-end consumer laptops. The model supports vision, long contexts, and tool calling. The over-thinking problem Qwen's documentation describes the model as defaulting to xhigh for reasoning effort—a setting designed for complex tasks demanding thorough analysis. In practice, this causes the model to use its full 262,144 token context on even mun
August 17, 20261 min