From AI companion app to open source hub: Hugging Face's wild pivot recalled
SanhEstPasMoi · x · 2026-09-04
- A post looks back at Hugging Face's journey, calling it one of the wildest pivots in the AI industry: from an AI friend/companion product to the most important platform for open source and open science.
- The author believes the story will be written about "in history books for decades," and congratulates founders Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thom Wolf, referencing the team's photo from four years ago and the company's ties with Jensen Huang.
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