Developer platforms like Hugging Face become gateways for compute and infrastructure
Clem Delangue · No Priors Ep. 5 | With Huggingface’s Clem Delangue · May 19, 2023 · at 32:17
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue explains why owning the top of the developer workflow allows platforms to capture downstream cloud compute revenue.
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“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 starting a project for us when, for machine learning projects, we see companies starting with hugging face, trying to find a model, find the data set, find the demo and hugging face, and then taking their infrastructure decisions based on that. So when you saw it in projects, you can become sort of some sort of a gate. For compute in, in my opinion, or gate for infrastructure.”
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