Comparing an open-source foundation model to an API is like comparing an engine to a car. These are two very different things at different levels of the tech stack that serve different purposes, create different opportunities & require different team/efforts to take advantage of.
@clementdelangue
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Hugging Face Reaches 1 Million AI Repositories Milestone
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We will very likely cross 1,000,000 AI repositories (models, datasets, spaces) on @huggingface by the end of this summer. AI is the new default to build all tech and we’re here for it!
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Runway ML founders celebrated as important AI company
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Congrats to @runwayml
, very well deserved! Little known fun fact, @agermanidis
, one of the founders, worked @huggingface for a few months when we were just a few people. So happy to see him, @c_valenzuelab & team build one of the most important companies out there! An other -
Reserved Instances: Training Infrastructure and Utilization Challenges
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Reserved instances are trainers secret sauce! Not only because of the « guaranteed » part but also for other reasons for example it incentives researchers to train/experiment rather than brainstorm haha. Comes with other less publicized challenges though (like under-utilization).
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Hugging Face Statement on AI Innovation to Congress
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The full statement is below courtesy of @IreneSolaiman with the help of many @huggingface experts: Introduction
Chairman Lucas, Ranking Member Lofgren, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss AI innovation with you in a critical time for AI and -
Open Source AI Democratizes Economic Gains for Startups
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This is my 5-minute testimony before the US Congress!
— clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) 26 juin 2023
Open science and open source AI distribute economic gains by enabling hundreds of thousands of small companies and startups to build with AI. It fosters innovation, and fair competition between all.
Thanks to ethical… pic.twitter.com/a30RMV2oZWThis is my 5-minute testimony before the US Congress! Open science and open source AI distribute economic gains by enabling hundreds of thousands of small companies and startups to build with AI. It fosters innovation, and fair competition between all. Thanks to ethical
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Top AI Models and Datasets Weekly Trends Highlighted
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Trending models, datasets, spaces and PAPERS (
https://
huggingface.co/Papers!!) of the week on http://
hf.co. Congrats to @TIIuae (falcon) @MosaicML (mpt) @StabilityAI (SDXl) @MetaAI (MusicGen) @MSFTResearch (Textbooks AAYN) @UMBaltimore (through your eyes) and many others! -
Leaderboard discovery platform on Hugging Face Spaces
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Very cool! Would be awesome to have the leaderboard as a http://
hf.co/spaces for people to discover it on the platform!

