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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AI Accelerates NHS Cancer Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
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How AI is helping to shrink waiting times for NHS cancer patients https://
bit.ly/3sgKre9 The National Health Service at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is now able to plan radiotherapy treatments faster than in the past, thanks to AI advances that are cutting wait times. -
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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Hugging Face Reaches $4.5B Valuation in New Funding Round
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Hugging Face, the open source darling that has become pretty much the home of all OSS LLM and Diffusion models, has hit a $4.5 billion valuation with a new funding round. I spoke with Clement Delangue about what it means and how they balance enterprise plans and community growth.
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Cotton Ace: AI-Powered Pest Warning System for Farmers
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Cotton Ace is an AI-powered early pest warning and instant advisory system. It helps cotton farmers to protect their crops by providing timely and localized advice on pesticide application, and helps extension workers and administrators to monitor the solution.
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New SVP Global Alliances Scott Van Valkenburgh Named
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WELCOME to our new SVP of Global Alliances and Channels Scott Van Valkenburgh. With 25 years of leadership experience, he'll lead our global partner strategy and execution, and will capitalize on “untapped potential to enable analytics for all." Read: https://
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AI Driving Force: Essential Questions for Business Leaders
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In a world rapidly being shaped by #technology, none have created as profound an impact as #Artificial#Intelligence. #AI isn't just a buzzword; it's the digital driving force steering companies into the #future. https://
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very-leader-needs-to-ask-about-ai/
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Organizational Resilience
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Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) help organizations stay operational after an adverse event. Resiliency has become the watchword for organizations facing an array of threats. Source @TechTarget Link https://
bit.ly/3OwKx8W via @antgrasso #BusinessResilience