Dwarkesh's plain-English history of OpenAI and Hugging Face's rise and fall
coolbern · reddit · 2026-09-04
Dwarkesh Patel publishes a plain-English narrative history of OpenAI and Hugging Face, tracing OpenAI's path from nonprofit lab to frontier-lab leader and Hugging Face's pivot from chatbot startup to open-source model hub, framed as the rise and fall of 'agent civilizations'.
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