NVIDIA Acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion in Landmark Open Source AI Deal

Sep 3, 2026 By Stephanie Simone NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion—enabling the company to scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and…

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck |

Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas. Clem Delangue, CEO of…

IBM and Together AI Collaborate to Scale Open Source AI Inference

Aug 24, 2026 IBM announced a partnership with Together AI to deliver IBM and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Under a multi-year $240M agreement between IBM and…

Airbyte Migration Service Empowers Organizations to Move Production Workloads from Airbyte Open Source to Airbyte Cloud with Minimal Downtime

Aug 13, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, is introducing a new service that enables organizations to migrate from…

Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic

This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses the launch of Nvidia’s splashy alliance to push for open-source AI security alongside companies like Microsoft, SpaceX,…

Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M |

9:09 AM PDT · July 30, 2026 Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI…

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous |

As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch.…

Exabeam Introduces Open Source Tool to Bring Agent Behavior Verification to AI Agents and Digital Workers

Jul 13, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Exabeam, a leader in Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise, is launching Agent Behavior Verification (ABV), a new security…

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

Open source AI is booming, according toHugging FaceCEOClem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI…

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users |

The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch.…