Self-roast: missed Hugging Face in 2017
intellectronica · x · 2026-08-27
A self-deprecating look back at 2017, where the author thought a startup for downloading open-source transformers was useless. "I would make a really lousy investor," they admit, highlighting how non-obvious Hugging Face's success once seemed.
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