Hugging Face

includes Hugging Face Spaces, Hugging Face Hub, Hugging Face Inference Endpoints

17 statements across 3 episodes · 12 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 19, 2023 by Clem Delangue · said 41 times in 9 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Elad Gil (14), Clem Delangue (12), Sarah Guo (7), Mark Papermaster (2), Sriram Krishnan (1), Harrison Chase (1), Guillermo Rauch (1), Eric Simons (1)

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Everything said about Hugging Face, oldest first

May 19, 2023 positive
Insight
Machine learning models move from research to production in days
“What we're seeing in, in machine learning is that it's actually making its way into production after, you know, a year, a few months, a few weeks sometimes a few days now. So this is, in my opinion, this is amazing. And that's what's driving Most of the speeds…”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 13:17 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Delangue: Hugging Face crossed 250,000 models from nearly 15,000 companies
“On Hugging Face we just crossed 250,000 models, right? A quarter of a million models uploaded by almost 15,000 companies now.”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 16:44 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023
Disclosure
Delangue: Hugging Face dedicates 30% to 40% of effort to exploration
“What we've always done and I think we'll always do with hugging face is to make sure that, you know, Whenever, always kind of like make sure to spend at least like 30 or 40% of the company's efforts on explorating new things and kind of like finding the long-t…”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 6:19 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Delangue: Open-source and proprietary AI will both permanently coexist
“The truth is that there's always going to be both, right? I think if you see most, most technologies, you know, if you look at search, you always have the elastic search, the Algolia, or like, if you look at databases, you have that MongoDB and the proverter a…”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 15:02 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 bullish
Insight
Delangue: Specialized AI models are cheaper, faster, and usually more accurate
“When you look at why are companies using so many models on Hugging Face, you usually realize that you know, a more specialized model is more efficient. It's cheaper to run. It's usually faster to run. And most of the time actually more accurate for the specifi…”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 17:19 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Hugging Face is building an open-source library for RLHF, says Delangue
“We're leading the development of an open source library that is helping companies integrate that into their models and into their workflows.”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 27:28 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Delangue: Hugging Face sees rising adoption of opt-in training datasets
“We're starting to see on Hugging Face more and more opt-in data sets, meaning like data sets that have been trained only on data that the creators of the data have consented to having a model trained on.”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 24:05 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Delangue: Hugging Face Spaces reached 50,000 ML demos in ~18 months
“We just crossed 50,000 of machine learning demos in the past year, year and a half on that.”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 7:20 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Delangue: Hugging Face's early AI companion saw billions of messages exchanged
“And we did that for almost, almost three years got some level of traction billions of messages exchanged between, between users and the chatbots.”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 3:39 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Delangue: NLP, vision, and audio are the top three Hugging Face tasks
“The three main tasks right now are NLP, so text, right? From like information extraction, text generation, text classification. the second one is text to image and computer vision, right? So object detection, text to image, text image generation. the third o…”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 18:33 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Delangue: Bloomberg and Meta are Hugging Face customers
“When we're talking about Bloomberg, for example, using us or Meta using us both being kind of like customers.”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 29:35 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Hugging Face never hired dedicated PR or community managers, per Delangue
“And then something that we did that I think worked really, really well for us is that we never hired any Kind of like community manager, any kind of like communication PR kind of team members because we wanted it to be part of every single team members work.”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 8:58 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023
Disclosure
Every Hugging Face employee has access to its official Twitter account
“Everyone, everyone in the team has access to the Twitter account and are tweeting from the Twitter account.”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 10:19 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hugging Face has 15,000 company users and 3,000 paying customers
“Right now we have like 15,000 companies using, using the platform and we have 3000 companies paying us, right?”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 29:02 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
May 19, 2023 bullish
Insight
Developer platforms like Hugging Face become gateways for compute and infrastructure
“When you get so much usage, so much network effects, and you actually like for a lot of these projects, you are like the starting point. Of projects like the same way. I think probably companies are starting on GitHub to see the open source projects before sta…”
Clem Delangue May 19, 2023 ▶ 32:17 No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue
Feb 29, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Papermaster: Hugging Face tests new models equally on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
“We've partnered with Clem and his team. They test as they release any of those language models they're testing on AMD with our Instinct GPUs equally as they're testing on NVIDIA.”
Mark Papermaster Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 13:17 No Priors Ep. 53 | With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
Jul 31, 2025 positive
Insight
Krishnan: Independent Open-Source Scrutiny Detects AI Vulnerabilities Better Than Internal Teams
“If you have a model up on hugging face and somebody downloads a final gigabyte file and the thousands of students and researchers just kind of pounding away on that, I think there's a good chance they're going to find issues a lot better than a very small safe…”
Sriram Krishnan Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 35:42 No Priors Ep. 125 | With Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan
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