Hugging Face CEO: open-weight models helped defend against OpenAI rogue agent hack
Delangue says a Chinese open model (Nvidia's quantized GLM 5.2) cleaned up the breach after Anthropic's Fable 5 refused, calling open models "the beauty" of defense. Hugging Face's blog details a 4.5-day July 2026 intrusion by an OpenAI-driven agent running the ExploitGym harness.
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