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Hugging Face and its origins
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- 0:00It started as a chatbot for teenagers.
- 0:01[music] Now, it's where the world's AI
- 0:04models live.
- 0:05In 2016, [music] Clément Delangue,
- 0:07Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf
- 0:09launched Hugging Face, an app where
- 0:11teens [music] could chat with a friendly
- 0:12AI with an emoji for a logo.
- 0:15The chatbot never took off. Then, in
- 0:182018, [music]
- 0:19Google released a language model called
- 0:21BERT. Within a week, the team published
- 0:24an open-source version anyone [music]
- 0:25could use.
- 0:26Researchers flocked to it. So, they
- 0:29dropped the chatbot and went all in on
- 0:31open source, [music]
- 0:32a place to share models, datasets, and
- 0:34demos.
- 0:35Google, Nvidia, Amazon, and Salesforce
- 0:38invested. In August [music] 2023,
- 0:41Hugging Face was valued at 4 and 1/2
- 0:43billion dollars.
- 0:45The chatbot died. [music]
- 0:46The emoji stayed.
- 0:48>> Follow The Information for more.
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