Hugging Face Doesn’t Want to Sue OpenAI. It Does Want $100 Million

Hugging Face was recently the victim of a rogue AI attack by OpenAI that has alarmed cybersecurity experts. The CEO of Hugging Face has called for OpenAI to donate $100 million in compute to the company, though it’s unclear whether that will ever happen. The Hugging Face CEO, Clement Delangue, gave his first interview since the incident on Friday to CNN. And Delangue’s answer to questions about possible legal action against OpenAI is pretty interesting. It seems Delangue is hinting that his company isn’t big enough to really take on the frontier AI companies in court. But if they donate $100 million in compute, they have nothing to worry about anyway. “You’re asking OpenAI as part of it for them to commit $100 million in compute to help the Hugging Face community to build powerful cyber defenses,” CNN host Kate Bolduan asked Friday. “Has OpenAI responded to that?” Delangue said they were having “good conversations” with OpenAI and that the company had been a good partner even before this intrusion. But then he pivoted into his suggestion that there could be serious consequences for OpenAI in this situation. “Everyone has to remember that this cyberattack is a crime. This is illegal