timm's journey from Kaggle side project to NVIDIA, via Hugging Face stewardship
JFPuget · x · 2026-09-04
Ross Wightman recounts how timm grew out of his early Kaggle imaging challenges and made its way to Team Green through Hugging Face's stewardship. Commenters add that they were among the first to pitch HF to NVIDIA years ago — first enabling HF model imports in NVIDIA tooling, then getting NVIDIA models on HF — and see the acquisition as securing both HF and open-weight AI.
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