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Hugging Face Open Alignment Initiative

Scorecard

Announced 12 September 2026 with a request to join Anthropic's embedded-evaluator program; no evaluations yet.

VC-backed, New York, US / Paris, FR. Confidence low. Domains: assurance. Scores by preset: Lab procurement 37; Regulator or auditor 38; Public trust 40; Equal weights 40. Weakest dimension: governance 0/4.

What would move the score. A governance structure that insulates the initiative from Nvidia, and a first published evaluation.

Funding 1/4
Material revenue or investment from evaluated labs or their investors.
evidence: tier 2 (ledger)
Anchor 1 on funding given the cited signals.
Governance 0/4
Unit or subsidiary of a lab or a lab's investor.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 0 on governance given the cited signals.
Personnel 2/4
Frequent two-way hiring; recusal on request.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 2 on personnel given the cited signals.
Access depth (lab-granted) 0/4
Public API only.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 0 on access given the cited signals.
Scope control 2/4
Scope negotiated per engagement.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 2 on scope given the cited signals.
Publication rights 3/4
Publishes; redaction limited to security; redactions disclosed.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 3 on publication given the cited signals.
Method transparency 3/4
Tasks or code partly open.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 3 on methods given the cited signals.
Role incompatibility 2/4
Consults for labs.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 2 on products given the cited signals.

Traced money and ties

hop 1: 1 row (investment $12930.0M). Confirmed rows: 1 of 1 (1 quarantined: T53). Dollar sums: confirmed + unaudited USD rows only; imported figures are not re-derived and never summed. Second hop traced for 1 of 1 sources. Ties: Google / Google DeepMind (investor, distance 0, imported), Amazon (investor, distance 0, imported), Nvidia (investor, distance 1, imported). Bounded negatives on file: 1.

Ledger

Money in

Bounded negatives

Roles hosted

One hop away

Amazon, Clement Delangue, Google / Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures

Funding graph, focused

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