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Hugging Face Snags $235M at $4.5B Valuation as Big Tech Opens Wallets

Open-source machine learning platform Hugging Face secured a $235 million Series D funding round led by Salesforce Ventures, with backing from tech giants including Google, Amazon, and NVIDIA, pushing its valuation to $4.5 billion.

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