Hugging Face dev Antoine Chaffin joins Perplexity AI
tomaarsen · x · 2026-08-20
Hugging Face developer Antoine Chaffin announced he is leaving LightOn to join Perplexity AI. He stated that leaving LightOn was not an easy decision given the achievements there, but his goal remains to solve search in the open. Community members congratulated him on the new role.
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