Hugging Face

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== History ==
== History ==
=== Founding ===
The company was founded in 2016 by French entrepreneurs Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf in [[New York City]], originally as a company that developed a [[chatbot]] app targeted at teenagers. The company was named after the {{unichar|1F917}} [[emoji]].{{Cite web |date=9 March 2017 |title=Hugging Face wants to become your artificial BFF |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/hugging-face-wants-to-become-your-artificial-bff/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925012620/https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/hugging-face-wants-to-become-your-artificial-bff/ |archive-date=2022-09-25 |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=[[TechCrunch]] |language=en-US|last=Dillet|first=Romain}} After [[Open-source software|open sourcing]] the model behind the chatbot, the company [[Lean startup|pivoted]] to focus on being a platform for machine learning.
The company was founded in 2016 by French entrepreneurs Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf in [[New York City]], originally as a company that developed a [[chatbot]] app targeted at teenagers. The company was named after the {{unichar|1F917}} [[emoji]].{{Cite web |date=9 March 2017 |title=Hugging Face wants to become your artificial BFF |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/hugging-face-wants-to-become-your-artificial-bff/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925012620/https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/hugging-face-wants-to-become-your-artificial-bff/ |archive-date=2022-09-25 |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=[[TechCrunch]] |language=en-US|last=Dillet|first=Romain}} After [[Open-source software|open sourcing]] the model behind the chatbot, the company [[Lean startup|pivoted]] to focus on being a platform for machine learning.


=== AI boom ===
On April 28, 2021, the company launched the BigScience Research Workshop in collaboration with several other research groups to release an open [[large language model]].{{cite web |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=10 January 2022 |title=Inside BigScience, the quest to build a powerful open language model |url=https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/10/inside-bigscience-the-quest-to-build-a-powerful-open-language-model/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701073233/https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/10/inside-bigscience-the-quest-to-build-a-powerful-open-language-model/ |archive-date=1 July 2022 |access-date=5 August 2022 |work=[[VentureBeat]]}} In 2022, the workshop concluded with the announcement of [[BLOOM (language model)|BLOOM]], a multilingual large language model with 176 billion parameters.{{Cite web |title=BLOOM |url=https://bigscience.huggingface.co/blog/bloom |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114122342/https://bigscience.huggingface.co/blog/bloom |archive-date=2022-11-14 |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=bigscience.huggingface.co |type=Blog}}{{Cite web |last=Heikkllä |first=Melissa |date=12 July 2022 |title=Inside a radical new project to democratize AI |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204184214/https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/ |archive-date=2022-12-04 |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=[[MIT Technology Review]] |language=en}}
On April 28, 2021, the company launched the BigScience Research Workshop in collaboration with several other research groups to release an open [[large language model]].{{cite web |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=10 January 2022 |title=Inside BigScience, the quest to build a powerful open language model |url=https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/10/inside-bigscience-the-quest-to-build-a-powerful-open-language-model/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701073233/https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/10/inside-bigscience-the-quest-to-build-a-powerful-open-language-model/ |archive-date=1 July 2022 |access-date=5 August 2022 |work=[[VentureBeat]]}} In 2022, the workshop concluded with the announcement of [[BLOOM (language model)|BLOOM]], a multilingual large language model with 176 billion parameters.{{Cite web |title=BLOOM |url=https://bigscience.huggingface.co/blog/bloom |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114122342/https://bigscience.huggingface.co/blog/bloom |archive-date=2022-11-14 |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=bigscience.huggingface.co |type=Blog}}{{Cite web |last=Heikkllä |first=Melissa |date=12 July 2022 |title=Inside a radical new project to democratize AI |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204184214/https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/ |archive-date=2022-12-04 |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=[[MIT Technology Review]] |language=en}}


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