Hugging Face Co-founder Reflects on 6-Year Journey: NVIDIA Deal to Accelerate Open Source AI
victormustar · x · 2026-09-04
Hugging Face's Victor Mustar reflected on his six-year journey: Julien Chaumond reached out on Twitter 6 years ago about building a "hub for ML models community"; day 18 he was already iterating Hub design prototypes.
He credits a long-tenured team that truly cares about the vision, and says joining NVIDIA is an opportunity to accelerate while ensuring open source AI keeps thriving — "it's just the beginning."
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