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Community-driven platform for ML models
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Community-driven platform for ML models
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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201-500 employees
Hugging Face is on a mission to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time.
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Hugging Face is on a mission to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time.
Large language models, which recognize and generate text, are already being used to auto-complete sentences, power chat bots, moderate content, summarize news articles, and translate text online. However, many of these advances are happening behind closed doors, stifling innovation and raising ethicacy concerns.
To combat this, Hugging Face is building the "GitHub of machine learning". It’s a community-driven platform with a ton of repositories, where developers can create, discover and collaborate on ML models, datasets and ML apps. This work led to the creation of BLOOM in 2022, an open-access LLM with similar architecture to OpenAI’s GPT, but that is multilingual by design.
The company also launched the Hugging Chat Assistant, an open-source tool to create personalised chat assistants, in direct competition to OpenAI's paid service ChatGPT Plus. By continually creating value based on a global community, not just for Microsoft or Google, HuggingFace should be able to carve out its own path for success.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Aug 2023
$235m
SERIES D
May 2022
$100m
SERIES C
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Clem Delangue
(CEO)Created Moodstocks, a startup building machine learning for computer vision acquired by Google. Also built Mention where they were head of Product and CMO until the company was acquired by MyNewsDesk.
Julien Chaumond
(CTO)Former advisor for the Deputy Minister for Digital Affairs in Paris, and Senior engineer for Stupefix app that was acquired by GoPro. Also co-founded and was CTO of Glose.
Thomas Wolf
(CSO)After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique, they worked on laser-plasma interactions at the BELLA Center of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Also worked as a European Patent Attorney for 5 years.
Lysandre started as an intern back in 2019 and now leads our Open Source team!
Emily Witko (DEIB and People Generalist)
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