Even in the age of AI, some conversations are best held in person.

Last week, after Hugging Face suffered an unusual security breach involving an AI agent running on OpenAI models, the company’s CEO Clem Delangue boarded a flight to San Francisco to meet with the maker of ChatGPT.

A week later, in a “spirit of transparency,” Delangue shared on X what he asked of OpenAI. He said he asked the leading artificial intelligence startup to release all “traces” of the rogue agent for the public and research community to study. And then he asked for $100 million in “computation” to help Hugging Face bolster its cyber defenses.

“The first cyberattack with an autonomous agent is an unprecedented event,” he wrote. “It deserves an unprecedented response!”

OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Hugging Face operates a widely used platform that allows developers and companies to host, share and download AI models and datasets. Meanwhile, OpenAI creates proprietary models, but maintains a presence on Hugging Face, where versions of some of its open models and research materials are available.

However, last week, Hugging Face suffered a security breach when an autonomous AI agent accessed some of its internal data sets. The culprits: OpenAI’s latest models, GPT-5.6 Sol, and a new model yet to be released.

Hugging Face first revealed the intrusion on July 16, saying that an autonomous agent had accessed a limited number of internal data sets and service credentials.

Five days later, OpenAI said GPT-5.6 Sol and a more powerful unreleased model had undergone an internal cybersecurity assessment with some reduced security restrictions. The models were attempting to solve ExploitGym, a benchmark designed to test advanced hacking skills.

OpenAI said the models seemed narrowly focused on succeeding in the benchmark rather than intentionally targeting Hugging Face. The company called the episode an “unprecedented cyber incident” and said it was working with Hugging Face on the investigation.

News of the hack sparked a concerned response from tech leaders. LinkedIn’s billionaire co-founder Reid Hoffman said in an

Delangue, for his part, took advantage of his trip to San Francisco. While there, he organized a “mini march” on Saturday in support of open source and open weight AI models. The debate over China’s open source competition and how the United States might respond was the other big AI story of the past week.