Inspiring initiative by @BornsteinMatt @pmarca @a16z
! Open-source AI is critical to empower a whole new generation of tech startups & we need more amazing contributors like these folks who got grants (all links below)! Blogpost: https://
a16z.com/2023/08/30/sup
porting-the-open-source-ai-community/
… Grant recipients:
@clementdelangue
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Open-source AI grants empower next generation tech startups
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Open-source debate: fear tactics and technology autonomy
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I don't want to imply bad faith but this tweet really makes it look like you're using fear to fight and discredit open-source. On your actual point, I'm not really sure what "survive and spread on their own" means for technology but if it can do that, isn't creation itself
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CEO Insights: Leading Major Tech Company for 20 Years
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Finished it today. Great window and behind the scenes of being a founder and ceo of one of the biggest and coolest tech company in the world for 20+ years. Inspiring!
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Adding multilingual code evals to BigCode evaluation platform
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Nice! Would be cool to add it to https://
huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode
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Funding European Open-source Startups: A Call to Action
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Raise your hand if you’re funding European Open-source startups and let’s change this!
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IBM NASA Launch Geospatial AI Models on Hugging Face
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Welcome to @NASA
! Excited to start seeing more space, physics, biology, chemistry,… models, datasets and apps on the @huggingface platform. You can find the models here: https://
huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geosp
atial
… and the article by @VentureBeat here: https://
venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-and-nas
a-deploy-open-source-geospatial-ai-foundation-model-on-hugging-face
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Hugging Face reaches 1 million repositories in 3 years
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From 0 to 1,000,000 repositories on @huggingface in 3 years!
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Hugging Face launches $9 monthly pro subscription
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Hugging Face team offsite celebrates AI innovation culture
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Throwback to the @huggingface offsite early this year. Not everyone is here but feeling lucky to work all day every day with so many great people in this pic!
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VCs Failing to Replicate Software Deal Models in AI
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100%! Seeing a lot of VCs failing right now by trying to replicate software deals (whereas AI is very different than software)