Reminder: Hugging Face started life as an AI companion chatbot
jungofthewon · x · 2026-08-28
A fun bit of AI history resurfacing: Hugging Face, now the dominant open-source model hub, originally launched as an AI friend chatbot app before pivoting to its transformer model library and growing into core infrastructure for the field.
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