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HF's CEO here! yes hopefully if we can help power good AI democratization thanks to open science and open source, we'd be happy. Do you think that's useful?

by clemnt 3y ago

ryzvonusef 3y ago
What do you want Hugging face's main product/business to be?
- clemnt 3y ago
  We've been working a lot on making it easier for software engineers (instead of just ML engineers) to use the HF platform lately with features like https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1671159691219709959 https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1671159691219709959 or https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1671914057866133512 https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1671914057866133512
  - ryzvonusef 3y ago
    Thank you for the answer, how successful at converting casual users into paying members? One of the biggest problems Tech companies face is sustainable scaling, I hope you can scale at a manner that allows you to stay relevant without teetering at the cliff's edge.
gl-prod 3y ago
That _is_ really useful! Instead of locking it down like OpenAI. I can't access it from my country. Do you have long term plans for HF?
- clemnt 3y ago
  feel free to try https://huggingface.co/chat/ https://huggingface.co/chat/ fully open-source interface for open-source chat models
  - gl-prod 3y ago
    I tried it and its super nice. Thanks!
EMIRELADERO 3y ago
Is the huggingface website/hub API itself open-source? That would be a good place to start for people who are interested but don't know a lot about ML. Plus it's some nice goodwill gesture that helps the "brand" in the circles it's talked about.
- clemnt 3y ago
  it's not open-source as it's how we make money to fund all the rest. The huggingchat interface is fully open-source though: https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui
- rafark 3y ago
  It’s free to use afaik so that’s good enough tbh. Most people don’t have powerful computers to run the models.
reaperman 3y ago
Yes. I pray for the success of open-source AI, particularly groups like HuggingFace and EleutherAI. I'm also terrified of the unfettered use-cases.
Havoc 3y ago
What is the thinking on paying to keep the lights on long term? Seems quite bandwidth heavy so presumably some sort of monetization will be necessary even if following a fairly open model

HF's CEO here! yes hopefully if we can help power good AI democratization thanks to open science and open source, we'd be happy. Do you think that's useful?

by clemnt 3y ago

HF's CEO here! yes hopefully if we can help power good AI democratization thanks to open science and open source, we'd be happy. Do you think that's useful?

ryzvonusef 3y ago

What do you want Hugging face's main product/business to be?

clemnt 3y ago
We've been working a lot on making it easier for software engineers (instead of just ML engineers) to use the HF platform lately with features like https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1671159691219709959 https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1671159691219709959 or https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1671914057866133512 https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1671914057866133512
- ryzvonusef 3y ago
  Thank you for the answer, how successful at converting casual users into paying members? One of the biggest problems Tech companies face is sustainable scaling, I hope you can scale at a manner that allows you to stay relevant without teetering at the cliff's edge.

gl-prod 3y ago

That _is_ really useful! Instead of locking it down like OpenAI. I can't access it from my country. Do you have long term plans for HF?

clemnt 3y ago
feel free to try https://huggingface.co/chat/ https://huggingface.co/chat/ fully open-source interface for open-source chat models
- gl-prod 3y ago
  I tried it and its super nice. Thanks!

EMIRELADERO 3y ago

Is the huggingface website/hub API itself open-source? That would be a good place to start for people who are interested but don't know a lot about ML. Plus it's some nice goodwill gesture that helps the "brand" in the circles it's talked about.

clemnt 3y ago
it's not open-source as it's how we make money to fund all the rest. The huggingchat interface is fully open-source though: https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui
rafark 3y ago
It’s free to use afaik so that’s good enough tbh. Most people don’t have powerful computers to run the models.

reaperman 3y ago

Yes. I pray for the success of open-source AI, particularly groups like HuggingFace and EleutherAI. I'm also terrified of the unfettered use-cases.

Havoc 3y ago

What is the thinking on paying to keep the lights on long term? Seems quite bandwidth heavy so presumably some sort of monetization will be necessary even if following a fairly open model