Got a chance to chat with Clement Delangue about Hugging Face’s new $4.5B valuation mega round. We talked spaces, breaking into enterprise, and ways to support AI “creators,” from outreach and communication to ideas for uses to support them via tips.
BIG TECH
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Meta Releases Code Llama, Advanced Open-Source Coding Model
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Today we’re releasing Code Llama, a large language model built on top of Llama 2, fine-tuned for coding & state-of-the-art for publicly available coding tools.
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) 24 août 2023
Keeping with our open approach, Code Llama is publicly-available now for both research & commercial use.
More ⬇️Today we’re releasing Code Llama, a large language model built on top of Llama 2, fine-tuned for coding & state-of-the-art for publicly available coding tools. Keeping with our open approach, Code Llama is publicly-available now for both research & commercial use. More
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OpenAI partners with Scale AI for enterprise GPT-3.5 fine-tuning
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We’re partnering with @scale_AI to provide support for enterprises fine-tuning GPT-3.5 on their proprietary data.
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Google Cloud partnership accelerates generative AI healthcare adoption
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We’re excited to announce a new initiative with @googlecloud to accelerate the adoption of AI across industries, including new generative AI-powered applications for the healthcare industry. This expanded partnership combines the value-driven AI platform and applied expertise
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Hugging Face balances free tools with enterprise adoption strategy
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HF's next act will be justifying that $4.5 billion valuation as it's still beholden to building a business (and its investors) to continue to grow. That means finding the right balance for its free tools remaining free while getting enterprises to adopt its model experience.
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Enterprise AI Security: Model Poisoning and Trust Challenges
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But there are a litany of other tasks in front of it. Security and trust has become a chief concern for enterprises—particularly model poisoning. There's the paradox of choice with those 1M models. Delangue sees HF as finding ways to help educate, not go full solutions architect.
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Hugging Face Balances Enterprise Growth With Community Model Sharing
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Part of the challenge for Hugging Face will be continuing to grow its enterprise core—an experience around models on Hugging Face with spaces and endpoints—while fostering its community that has uploaded more than 1 million models. As expected, GitHub is the model here.
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Major AI Company Raises Funding from Tech Giants
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Investors in the round include Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, Salesforce, and Sound Ventures. Basically companies with a ton of experience in enterprise sales cycles, both hardware and SaaS. (The company also says its round comes with no spend commitments.)
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Microsoft Integrates Python into Excel for Data Analysis
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@Microsoft announces the integration of Python into Excel https://actuia.com/actualite/microsoft-annonce-lintegration-de-python-a-excel/
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Military-Industry-University Complex in AI and Technology Development
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Also that they had people from MIT, Bell Labs and so many military examples, the whole military+industry+university crew. Same as today.