Hugging Face

“Most of the AI crypto projects we had seen had been just like not really interesting. It was more like copy paste from existing AI companies, and then they would like slap a token on top. So it would be like character AI with a token, like Langchain, but with …”

“Hugging face is the winner. They were in a bootcamp for chatbots. And pivoted from a chatbot into hugging face. So that's your answer.”

“So hugging face had to turn to open model, specifically GLM 5.2, which is deeply ironic, a Chinese open weight model that they run on their own infrastructure.”

“So the models found a zero day vulnerability, gained internet access and broke into hugging face because the model believed It hosted answers to the test.”

“I mean, the retention packages are apparently a billion dollars for a pretty small team.”

“NVIDIA agreed to pay 12.9303 billion dollars for Hugging Face, which just happens to be the exact decimal code for the Hugging Face emoji, which of course is the Icon used by the company.”

“They became profitable in 20, 25, still had half the money that they raised. So Nvidia came in to offer five hundred million late 20, 25 at a seven billion valuation, but they turned it down.”

“They have over eighteen million developers, 200,000 companies using the product, three million models, and over half a million data sets.”