Good conclusion to my DC week in support of transparency and openness in AI with this podcast from @StevenOverly @politico
: https://
politico-tech.simplecast.com/episodes/the-h
ugging-face-case-for-open-ai
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Hugging Face Case for Open AI: Transparency and Openness
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Hugging Face releases IDEFICS StarCoder and BLOOM models
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t'as vu https://
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huggingface.co/blog/starcoder https://
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Surprise appearance at Betaworks demo day NYC
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I’ll make a surprise appearance (not so surprise anymore I guess) @betaworks demo day in NYC with @Borthwick later today. See you there!
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Hugging Face Enterprise subscription now available for organizations
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If you're not an enterprise org on the @huggingface hub, you're missing out! After a few months of beta-testing, you can now subscribe directly on https://
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Hugging Face Releases Open-Access Multimodal AI Model
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Most people missed one of the most important news of the summer – open-access multi-modal (image + text) model coming out of @huggingface
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Europe produces world-class AI researchers and builders
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IMO Europe produces some of the best AI researchers and builders in the world, so there's that!
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Large AI Compute Investments Drive Higher Stakes Volatility
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It's a great point! Large compute spent indeed grows the magnitude of the investments (and losses) & the velocity of the downfalls. Fun time ahead haha
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Startup Funding Trade-offs: Broad Investment vs Company Survival
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It comes with how the startup/tech system works, no? Or do you think there's a way to do it differently? I feel like the cure (aka investing less and less broadly and not maximizing potential/missing opportunities) is worse than the disease (some companies won't make it and
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Balancing automation and workplace tension in AI era
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finding the right balance overtime & reducing the tension between the two is the challenge IMO
