The $2 Billion Emoji: Hugging Face Wants To Be Launchpad For A Machine Learning Revolution
Newly valued at $2 billion, the AI 50 debutant originated as a chatbot for teenagers. Now, it has aspirations—and $100 million in fresh dry powder—to be the GitHub of machine learning.
Innovation Venture Capital Editors' Pick The $2 Billion Emoji: Hugging Face Wants To Be Launchpad For A Machine Learning Revolution Hugging Face logo in sticker form on a door Hugging Face Updated May 25, 2022, 06:27pm EDT Newly valued at $2 billion, the AI 50 debutant originated as a chatbot for teenagers. Now, it has aspirations—and $100 million in fresh dry powder—to be the GitHub of machine learning. By Kenrick Cai W hen Hugging Face first announced itself to the world five years ago, it came in the form of an iPhone chatbot app for bored teenagers. It shared selfies of its computer-genera
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