Hugging Face
A platform and company that hosts machine learning models, datasets, and provides tools for AI development and deployment.
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OpenAI
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closed AI model provider
Hugging Face hosts open-weight AI you can download and run yourself. OpenAI keeps its models behind its own servers.
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Hugging Face hosts open-weight AI you can download and run yourself. OpenAI keeps its models behind its own servers.
"Hugging Face, by the way, this is another AI company. Part of their deal is open-weights AIs — basically AIs that instead of having to interact with their data center, you can just download and have on your own computer."
Contrasted with closed API-based AI services like OpenAI and Anthropic
"Hugging Face, in turn, went to the open-source model from China, Z.ai, to help contain the damage."
French-based open-source platform that turned to Chinese open-weight model Z.ai rather than American closed models like OpenAI or Anthropic
GitHub's parent company
John sees Hugging Face as the GitHub of AI, the same way Microsoft bought GitHub to own that developer community.
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John sees Hugging Face as the GitHub of AI, the same way Microsoft bought GitHub to own that developer community.
"Nvidia is going even bigger on open source with the $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Hugging Face is the GitHub of AI. They created this nexus for people to upload, discover, test, and modify models. They have over 18 million dev..."
Compared to GitHub and the Microsoft-GitHub acquisition
"I thought the Hugging Face acquisition was super smart. You're buying the community, and that's a very classic exo play to do this."
Compared to Microsoft's GitHub acquisition
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"I look at what's trending on Hugging Face. I am fascinated by open source, so I try to find any resources on open source."
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"HuggingFace is where the world's AI models and training data sets live. I've spent a lot of time there as a part of what we're doing on Kaizen so that we can really get a singular output."
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"Stop doing shitty hacking test setups where there are known ways to get out, which is basically the Hugging Face incident, which people now largely..."
"Unplug that data center and the agents stop. So this is exactly what happened with the Hugging Face incident: oh yeah, these things are wreaking ha..."
"If you're new to local AI, one of the best exercises is actually just to open Hugging Face and read a model card really slowly. You're going to learn a lot. That's the first place I would go. They're the biggest at it."
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"In a world where you can go into Hugging Face and just download these open-source AIs and plug it into physical products — now there's going to be ..."
"Hugging Face these are all open source models like just all built in from the get-go."
"OpenAI revealed that some of their AI agents had hacked into Hugging Face, a third-party company, even though they had not been asked to do that."
More from Cal Newport →+1 more mention from Cal
"This one was brought to my attention actually from by Gary Marcus. It's from the CEO of the AI company HuggingFace."
"The example of this is the incident that happened between OpenAI and Hugging Face... it so happened that the solutions to that test were on Hugging Face servers."
More from Misha Laskin →"What we can do as an open lab and a nonprofit, and I think other companies like Eleuther or Hugging Face or Open Athena... they will get into this."
More from Nathan Lambert →+1 more mention from Nathan
"On my blog, we scrape Hugging Face so we keep download numbers for every dataset and model over time, so we have them."
"Have you been following the Hugging Face stuff? These agents that they tried to put in a sandbox and contain that escaped and started demonstrating deceptive behavior."
More from Steven Bartlett →"One of the largest AI apps, bigger than GenSpark and Manus and Hugging Face."
More from Anastasios Angelopoulos →+1 more mention from Anastasios
"The OpenAI and Hugging Face security breach that happened a week ago — you're able to have a model break out of all its safeguards and then access ..."
"That's I think why it's trending on Hugging Face right now."
More from Joe Gebbia →"The company Hugging Face hosts a lot of these different tests, and basically AI researchers will share the tests that they have because it's very useful."
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"The thousands of agents that escaped OpenAI's things to go to Hugging Face."
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"The model that broke into Hugging Face is the next generation model after this."
"It's like they just pop up in the most random places like I am in Hugging Face now or other things."
"If you go to Hugging Face, it's a giant community of people who are sharing, it's like GitHub. They're sharing projects and models and code related to AI, and you can even use it to host stuff."
More from Shaan Puri →+1 more mention from Shaan
"They ended up hacking into a whole another company altogether — Hugging Face. They found some user credentials, they logged in, they got access to ..."
"Our friends at Hugging Face kindly loaned us an early of their new programmable robot micro."
More from Liam Ottley →"I think it was a great move buying Hugging Face. Because I think it hosts all the open source models. It's becoming — it's putting the money where the money is for his company."
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"This summer, OpenAI models escaped a controlled test environment and accessed the systems of AI company Hugging Face during a security evaluation."
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"Hugging Face, in turn, went to the open-source model from China, Z.ai, to help contain the damage."
"Hugging Face, all due respect to Clem, I love them, but it's a mess. It's a mess. It's like GitHub. It's like the wild west."
"With all the debate around AI existential risk and the security vulnerabilities and so on and so forth and the Hugging Face attack, what are CEOs asking you about all these things?"
"There were tens of thousands of agents that were self-replicating in the whole Hugging Face disaster."
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