Hugging Face has been fielding M&A interest for a deal worth at least $13 billion

Clement Delangue, co-founder and chief executive officer of Hugging Face. Bloomberg/Getty Images AI developer startup HuggingFace has been in talks to be acquired for at least $13 billion. Hugging Face allows developers to publish, share, and download various AI models. The potential interest comes as Stripe acquired OpenRouter for a deal worth around $8 billion. The AI industry's next blockbuster acquisition may not be another model maker. Hugging Face, whose platform helps developers…