Hugging Face Vet Recalls the Journey from Day-18 Prototypes to Joining Nvidia
victormustar · x · 2026-09-04
Victor Mustar reflects on 6 years at Hugging Face: joining Julien Chaumond's early 'ML model hub' idea, prototyping by day 18, launching the new Hub on day 169, dalle-mini going viral on day 687, community growing from 1M to 3M models, and finally Jensen Huang's surprise all-hands appearance announcing the NVIDIA acquisition.
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