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#20: The Past, Present and Future of Hugging Face | Thomas Wolf, Co-Founder @HuggingFace | Leading with Data Ep 20
53 minutes Posted Jan 24, 2024 at 1:00 pm.
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In this episode of Leading With Data, we interact with Thomas Wolf, Co-founder of Hugging Face šŸ¤—

Thomas Wolf is the co-founder of Hugging Face. He has been leading the open-source, educational and research efforts. Thomas led the team which created the famous Transformers library and then was part of BLOOM Large Multilingual Language Model.
Watch as he delves into:
šŸ‘‰ His diverse background, a PhD in Physics, a degree in law, and then finally working in the AI field!
šŸ‘‰ Initial days of Hugging Face where they intended to create an AI companion
šŸ‘‰ Their pivot to releasing their open-source libraries underscoring support for open-source
šŸ‘‰ How developing the GPT and the BERT libraries eventually led to the creation of the famous Transformers library
šŸ‘‰ Why the creation of BLOOM Multilingual LLM and other libraries were part of a plan to enable AI for everyone
šŸ‘‰ The future - better open-source LLMs, datasets for LLMs, Mabma architecture, and more
šŸ‘‰ His interesting take on the development of the video generation field
šŸ‘‰ The future of Hugging Face!šŸ¤—
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