Hugging Face Co-founder Thom Wolf Reflects on the Journey to NVIDIA's $12.93B Deal
helloiamleonie · x · 2026-09-03
On the day Hugging Face announced its $12.93B acquisition by NVIDIA, co-founder Thom Wolf reflected on the journey: a tiny scrappy team in 2016 that never anticipated the field's explosive growth or its own massive impact. He also recalled co-founder Julien Simon's old joke that "code will be a subset of ML" — which turned out to be true.
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