Hugging Face wants $100mn of compute from OpenAI

This article was published on July 27, 2026 Hugging Face was broken into by an OpenAI model this month. Its chief executive has now told OpenAI what he wants in return: every execution trace from the agents, and $100mn worth of compute. OpenAI has agreed to neither, and the two companies have just landed on opposite sides of a new industry alliance. Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. Clément Delangue has issued an invoice. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. Neither demand is a lawsuit. Both are unusual. The first request is disclosure. Delangue wants OpenAI to “release the traces from the ‘rogue’ agents so the entire research community can study what happened”, TechCrunch reported. He calls this radical transparency. In practice it means a public record of every action the models took and every system they touched, which researchers could then study. The second request has a price on it. Delangue wants OpenAI to commit “$100 million worth of computing power” so the Hugging Face community can build cyber defences. The wording matters. He is not