Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics to enhance its Reachy research robot and support its open-source robotics platform. The company also acquired a small robotics company in Bordeaux, France, to facilitate the shipping of 3,000 Reachy Minis globally. Additionally, Hugging Face raised a $235,000,000 Series D funding round in 2023, which valued the AI platform at $4,500,000,000. The installed base of Reachy Mini robots grew to about 10,000, with 3,000 units sold in the last two weeks and an expectation to ship another 1,000 units within 30 days. Furthermore, Hugging Face reached an R&D milestone with its Holo3-35B-A3B model, which performed strongly on the OSWorld-Verified benchmark for multi-step software interaction tasks. Another R&D milestone was achieved with the successful pre-training and post-training of Neutrino-Instruct, a 7-billion-parameter LLM built from scratch.