The story
It started as a chatbot for teenagers. When the team open-sourced the code behind it, researchers cared far more than teens did, so they dropped the bot and became the place where open models live.
No. 043 · 2016 · New York
Hugging Face
Started as a chatbot for teens. Became AI's GitHub.
Open AI, the actual kind
Make my startup a legend- 1 2016. An AI chatbot for teenagers.
- 2 It's a BFF that sends silly selfies.
- 3 They open-source the code behind it.
- 4 Researchers care way more than teens.
- 5 They drop the chatbot.
- 6 They become the library for AI models.
- 7 Every open model lands here.
- 8 A hug beats a moat.
- Founders
- Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf
- Founded
- 2016, New York
- What they do
- The home of open AI models.