Thomas Wolf

So happy to finally share the news in person It’s been a wild ride for Hugging Face. We certainly did not anticipate, back in 2016, as a tiny team of scrappy underdogs, that the field would grow so much or that the impact we could have on it would become so massive. I remember @julien_c joking that « code will be a subset of ML » several years ago. The joke turned out to be true, and the pleasure we’ve had being part of this transformation and pushing an alternative vision of AI as open, collaborative and distributed has been and still is immense. We’ve always built things seriously while not taking ourselves too seriously at Hugging Face (special congrats if you find the Hugging Face and Nvidia references hidden in our $12,930,300,000 acquisition price), and we plan to keep doing what we've been doing, just at a much bigger scale, backed by the resources, expertise and drive of Nvidia. And to be clear, nothing changes for our users today. No company in the world has been a more natural fit with our mission than Nvidia. From open-source, open-weights and open science to robotics and AI for science, they have been close partners across everything we care about. So when Jensen offered @ClementDelangue the opportunity to double down on building the Hub as an open, independent and compute agnostic platform, we decided the time was right to start the next 10 years of our journey together. We’re at an important inflection point for open-source AI, where scale and compute are becoming increasingly essential. We’re excited to have the resources to push further, build more ambitiously, and bring you even more projects and news in the coming months.