A profile of Hugging Face, which started in 2016 to build a sassy chatbot for teens; CEO Clément Delangue says he approached Nvidia this summer to pursue a deal (Wall Street Journal)

Hugging Face, founded in 2016, is negotiating a $12.9 billion acquisition by Nvidia after CEO Clément Delangue approached the chipmaker. OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, scoring 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with its standard harness and 99.9% with a provider-adapter harness, priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.