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2 articles First covered Aug 10, 2026, latest Sep 1, 2026

Nvidia's $12.9 billion bid for Hugging Face would also buy the llama.cpp team

Hugging Face turned down Nvidia at a $7 billion valuation last year. The reported price is now $12.9 billion, and the ggml maintainers come with it.

AMD's glass-fronted Santa Clara headquarters behind ornamental grasses, with the AMD sign on a low monument by the sidewalk

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One model per chip: AMD bought Taalas, whose test part hit 17,000 tokens a second

Taalas casts a model's weights into transistors. Its 6nm test chip served Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second, and AMD just bought the company.