Lux Capital recalls leading Hugging Face's seed seven years ago

As news of Hugging Face's tie-up with NVIDIA emerged, Lux Capital's Josh Wolfe recounted leading its round seven years ago, from a Brooklyn rooftop handshake to a shared belief in open AI, congratulating the team as that conviction paid off.

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